Default root user password
Frederic Gaus
mailinglists at necroshine.de
Wed Nov 2 07:01:13 UTC 2005
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Vaio Lord wrote:
> I have installed Ubuntu now and can login as the user the install method
> had me create however I cannot change config or any packages. Trying to
> login with root is denied, I am trying the only password the
> installation asked me for but get denied. Can anyone help me out. Does
> it have a default one I don't know about ?
>
You can call every command with your user account using sudo. Even "sudo
su" is working, so you can get a root-shell.
The normal root-login is decativated by default.
Greetings
Frederic Gaus
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