Root password?

[Lorin Pino]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 04:12 +0200, albi wrote:
> Lorin Pino 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?
> 
> this is a FAQ, read this :)
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo?action=show&redirect=SudoRoot
> 
> -- 
> grtjs, albi
> gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import
> 
Thank you.  I will try to be better self-informed in the future. Well,
now I try it out!
~Lorin

PS.  Is everyone else getting the duplicate responses to this thread?