Root password

[Joseph]

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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:18:25 -0500
From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp at ttlc.net>
Subject: root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation
issues]
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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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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Hello Joe,

  I had the same confusion when I did my first install
of the Ubuntu.  Uhmmn, I didn't read the docs either.
Happens to the best of us. =)  By design you have to
use sudo for everything or you can also enable root.
Check out the following:

Sudo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo

Enable Root
http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html#setchangeenablerootpassword

Thanks,
Joe