root password?

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:02:50 -0500
Pete Clapham <w.clapham at csuohio.edu> wrote:

> The root account /is/ enabled, but it isn't given a password, so you 
> can't access it directly.  What you have to do is to sudo passwd root 
> and enter a password.  

Or just do

sudo -i

> Since you've zapped your sudoers file, you 
> probably can't do that. 

Yes he can. If you boot in "recovery" mode you get a root prompt... see my
other post.

> Personally, I much prefer to do a su and know 
> I'm a superuser than to depend on sudo for everything.  But that's my 
> preference; evidently most Ubuntu users have a different preference.

	<captain obvious tag>
Either way is fine, except that if you give yourself a root password, the
trick above won't give you a root prompt by default, so you'd better make
sure you remember your root password :) 
	</captain obvious tag>


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