No Root Password

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

Use sudo thus:

sudo vi /etc/xorg.conf

then enter your regular password to sun vi as root.

Alternatively, type:

sudo passwd root

then enter your regular password and then the password for root (twice), 
then su into root.

The explanation for this was up on the ubuntu site but they seem to be 
re-organising stuff so can't point you to it.

Hope this helps,

Nicholas


Paul Trevethan wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I downloaded the hoary .iso today and did a quick install on an old
>Pentium III box I use for testing. Just let me say how impressed I am.
>This is a very nice little distribution indeed. I have been using SuSE
>for a few years which I like, but it is starting to get a bit "big &
>commercial" if you know what I mean. Also, I am not a big KDE fan. I
>prefer Gnome or Xfce. So, I was just looking around for alternatives
>that concentrate some effort on Gnome and landed here.
>
>Now, my problem! The installation and initial update went very smoothly
>it appeared. I followed along without a manual ok. However, I appear to
>have skipped too quickly at some point because I have no root password.
>I only noticed it when I went to change some monitor settings in
>/etc/xorg.conf that did not get detected correctly and realised I could
>not do anything and then realised I could not login as root.
>
>I don't remember being asked anywhere to set it up, but on reflection,
>being asked to setup a standard user without having set up super user
>did seem a bit strange?
>
>Anyway, if there is a simple way to correct this without a re-install, I
>would appreciate the advice? I did not muck around with the partitioner
>on install so I will probably do a re-install when I have done a few
>more tests just to know how to change to reiserfs and my multiple
>partitions.
>
>This is a show stopper at the moment because I can only set max. of 60
>MHz refresh at 1024x768 and that is killing my eyes. I know the old
>monitor can handle 75 and the Matrox G400 has more grunt.
>
>Hope someone can help?
>Cheers,
>Paul.
>
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