root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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About the root password...
During the install of ubuntu 5.10, I _WAS_ asked for a non-root username
and password. (which I always set to a generic user that I only use until
I can manually configure what I want in /etc/skel And then manually
create my regular user accounts with specific user ID's that remain the
same on ALL of my linux file systems...)

BUT it did _NOT_ ask me for a root password, nor did it ask me to take
note of a default root password... thus I can't even su to root to
make the configuration changes I need, in order to be able to stand
ubuntu... such as force run level 3 booting and use startx to
optionally fire up the gui etc... etc...

Is it normal for the installer to skip asking the user for the root
password???

Is there a default root password on the ubuntu 5.10 default install?

Else, what do I gotta do to fix that? (I may not exactly be a linux
newbie but I never had to do that before...)

Thanks in advance!

		Joe


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