default root pwd for base system install?

[Ronny Haryanto]

On Monday 09 January 2006 16:03, Lonn wrote:
> Just loaded 5.10 and expected the root pwd to be nul until set the first
> time. Wrong!!
>
> Can someone help me out. Reply direct if you do not want to make an
> international issue out of the default pwd for root on initial install.

root's password is initially disabled, not null. It's recommended that 
privileged operations are done with 'sudo' instead of logging in as root.
As such, one can simply do 'sudo passwd' to change the root password to enable 
root login.

Ronny
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