I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Aug 3 13:17:34 UTC 2005


On wo, 2005-08-03 at 09:07 -0400, Frank Hale wrote:

> Turns out that you have to give root a password after installation by
> using sudo. Now how many new users have not put a root password on
> their box? I bet the number is quite large. Shouldn't the installer be
> tweaked to *make* you enter some type of initial password for root?

Not having a root password is by design and a good security measure...
You don't have to set one, I never set one since I used Ubuntu
(september 2004) and everything works perfectly fine.

-- 
Dennis K.
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