Default root user password

[Frederic Gaus]

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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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