After reading the support threads I am baffled

Alan Swartz kde at swartzes.com
Wed Aug 3 21:45:44 UTC 2005


James wrote:
> Does it not occur to anyone at UBUNTU that no root user causes us to not
> be able to get into a logged in prompt where we can type sudo -s?
> I cannot find anywhere, one shred of why this has not been addressed.  I
> tried the sudo -s from a live boot after installing it, and of course
> that did not work because it is in a different session that I made my
> changes.  Does anyone have a reasonable answer why this Linux for the
> people is harder than any other to get into?
> 
> James
> 
I guess if you really want a root account try...
sudo passwd root





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