Being root

[christopher.lemire at gmail.com]

sudo passwd root

It can be done! I did it, and that's how it is done. 

Then to login as root. 

su -

Or

su - root

sudo su - (this can be done without a root account and does not create one)

Let me know if this helped. 
------Original Message------
From: Jerry Houston
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ReplyTo: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Being root
Sent: Jun 24, 2009 5:29 PM

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 03:26:30 am Mark Syms wrote:
> > How does one set the root password, or is this never done ?
>
> In Ubuntu, this is never done. The first user that is added to the system
> (the one you created during install) is created as a member of the admin
> group and this group can use sudo to run anything as root.

Heh ... it's done here.

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