root password setting unoffered at install
Bruce Marshall
bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Sun Nov 4 23:35:23 UTC 2007
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> Still, I'll learn to do it the Ubuntu way, or die
> trying. Everyone, told I was running WinXP, asked me
> not "why aren't you running Linux", but "why aren't
> you running Ubuntu", and it doesn't quite take a
> brick to the skull to get me to take a hint that
> broad.
To get a root password,
sudo passwd root
supply your user password
then enter the new root password and you're home free.
<I'm with you on the root thing.>
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