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

Ewan Mac Mahon ewan at macmahon.me.uk
Thu Aug 4 21:47:22 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:41:01PM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
>Coming from the Redhat model -- All of our linux servers are Fedora
>Core -- I had a period of considerable heartburn because I couldn't
>find the root account, and couldn't find it in the docs etc.

Oh come on; go to the main ubuntu website front page, pick search, type
'root' in the box; the second item in the list returned is:

"What's the root password after I install? How do I use the root
account?"

It's not like it's hidden.

Ewan
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