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

[J.Markoll]

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Frank Hale a écrit :
|>We old-timers are the ones who insist on setting a root password :-)
| I find that all the crap I've learned so far using linux has hindered
| me from adapting to new ways of doing things. I started in 97 and even
| to this day there is so much I don't know. For instance I'm about to
| ask a really dumb question. Since I already set the root password and
| have been using it, is there a way I can disable the root account so
| that I can train myself to start using sudo?
Yes, I saw something treating completely on the Ubuntu Wiki.
Please, don't take it as an invitation to browse the web, but
I've got so many links in my bookmark :rolleyes:, you should just look
for the page with the doc about sudo (starting from search page, or from
site map, for example). In fact, the trick is to lock
and unlock the root account. Once you activated it, it's unlocked.
I you prefer disabling, you lock.
You also can use sudo with an unlocked root account. You just do sudo
the_command and use the passwd you created during install, and not the
'true root' passwd.
Best greetings, J.Markoll.

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