Default root password

[Richard Dennis Colbert Jr]

> Actually, I did take it as rude, since I did do a "10 sec" google 
> search for 'ubuntu root password'. I have never run onto a distro that 
> didn't use root so I had no idea.
>
> For those that actually helped me, thanks
>
> Get some sleep James
>
> thanks
> Russ
>

Dude you couldn't have searched very hard. I did a 30 second google 
search for "ubuntu +root +password" and found two different ways to do 
what I wanted....

1.) sudo command_to_run_as_root_here
2.) sudo passwd root

The last option ENABLES THE ROOT ACCOUNT which is not a good idea for 
security reasons, but in my case (being a total newbie to Linux) I did it.

I found the info on this google search: 
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Broot+%2Bpassword&btnG=Google+Search
The page that had the info I needed was item # 7 which linked to: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-34089.html

PS - I just setup Ubuntu on my MAIN DESKTOP as my ONLY OS. Ditched MS 
and PAY SOFTWARE FOREVER. I had to figure out how to do this to install 
some software that wasn't available in the Universal repository. If I 
can do it, anyone can.