Question about root

[Rob Diehl]

Ahh.. I see. Well, at least "su root" and running passwd to change the 
root password does the trick. Maybe this would also be a work-around for 
the problem Jeremy was mentioning.

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:21:32PM -0400, Rob Diehl wrote:
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>>I ran across a small problem with the system asking me for the root 
>>password. In System Monitor, when trying to 'nice' a process, it 
>>requires the root password. I didn't know what it was! So I launched a 
>>root terminal, ran "su root" and passwd'd the root account. Just an 
>>observation...
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>https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394
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