Root password?
Peter N. Spotts
pspotts at alum.mit.edu
Thu May 18 02:08:35 UTC 2006
On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:03:59 -0500
Lorin Pino <ljpino at grundyec.net> wrote:
> Now I know why someone wrote to the list for a root password. I just
> got finished installing ubuntu 5.10, and it never asked for one! It
> set up a user account, but no root account. This makes configuration
> a bit difficult.
>
> Does anyone know how I can define a root password without becoming
> root first? Or should I try the install again and see if something
> different happens?
>
> ~Lorin
>
>
P.S. Be aware that web access to CUPS also is deactivated in
Ubuntu...so I use the Gnome printer interface...
Pete
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