default root pwd for base system install?
Lonn
lonn at lonnd.com
Mon Jan 9 05:28:05 UTC 2006
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ronny Haryanto [mailto:ronnylist at haryan.to]
| Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 00:12
| To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
| Subject: Re: default root pwd for base system install?
|
|
| 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
OK Ronny,
I am logged in as username selected in the install routine and with password
from same routine.
Now if I understand you, I should be able to issue 'sudo passwd' at prompt
and be able to assign a pwd to root. Is that correct. I have a Toshiba
laptop with an old disk that is 3.0 GIG under WIN with compression. It was
in my first Toshiba years ago. I must look at things like languages and
maybe perl and see if I can rm and get some free space.
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