man and grub/root password questions

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2005-08-15 at 10:04 -0500, gmiller at tx.psych.uiuc.edu wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu, dual-booting on one WinXP system and running
> under VMware on another WinXP system. 2 basic questions -
> 
> 1) When I get to the end of a man page in a terminal window, what should
> I do to exit man and get back to the command prompt? In Solaris, an
> extra <CR> will do it, but I haven't found a way in Ubuntu (or Xandros).

Ubuntu uses less as PAGER by default. You exit less with q 

> 2) I gather that, to set which OS to boot by default after the time-out
> on the dual-boot system, I need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, but to do
> so apparently I have to be root. During install, Ubuntu didn't ask for a
> root password (at least it didn't call it that). It did automatically
> set up one user account, and with the password I entered for that I'm
> able to download and install updates. But that password doesn't work as
> the root password following my entering "su". Is there a default root
> password I can use (and change)? or a way to set the root password?

Ubuntu uses sudu, http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo
-- 
Dennis K.
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