root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[(रेवंत) Revant Nandgaonkar]

On 12/11/05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
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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...)
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> 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...
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> Is it normal for the installer to skip asking the user for the root
> password???
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> Is there a default root password on the ubuntu 5.10 default install?
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> 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...)
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> Thanks in advance!
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>                 Joe
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If you are installing ubuntu first time, follow the starter guide. It's best
source of information for beginning your ubuntu journey.
read the starter guide here >
http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html

revant
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