Root password???

[Dick Davies]

On 09/04/06, gpeck157 <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

 > You're saying there is no root password, and that is not the case.

What is so difficult to understand here?

   sudo grep root /etc/shadow

after you install ubuntu.
See the '*' in the password field?

THERE IS NO ROOT PASSWORD SET unless *you* set one.
You make it sound like the installer sets one. It doesn't.

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