On 2007-08-21, Harry L. Lee wrote: > is this true? I was under the impression there *IS* a root password, merely > undisclosed (for good reason) That's what I used to think, but I was corrected on this list: the root account is "locked", which is not the same thing. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/93630/focus=93659