super user password?

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/08/2010 16:54, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> I have installed Ubuntu on my machine but at the Terminal I cannot 
> login as super user by issuing 'su - root' . During installation it 
> didn't ask me for super user password so how can I recover it ?
> Thank you

If you want to do something as root, then issue the command, "sudo 
<whatever you want to execute>" and you will be asked for the password 
which you used to login as YOURSELF.

For example, you login with the password "apple", then it is "apple" 
which you use in answer to "sudo....".

On the command line say you type "sudo mc"; you will then be asked for 
the password for <your-login-name> - type "apple" and you are superuser [1].

There is a special way of setting up the password for  "su -" which 
something like openSUSE uses but in Ubuntu all you need is to use "sudo" 
and then type your own login password.

[1] to do almost all things, but you do need to setup "root", if 
absolutely necessary, to be "the ruler of the universe over your Ubuntu 
system" :-) . Using "sudo" is more than enough to keep your system fully 
functional. To find out more about this read the documentation starting 
here:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community



BC

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