root user

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/1/1 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
> 2012/1/1 Leila M <mech.loulou at gmail.com>:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to access the root account but I
>> cant do so using my password. I didn't specify any password during the
>> system installation process except the one I use to access my account.
>> any ideas about how to do so
>
> There is no root account by default,

Correction: There is one, but it doesn't have a password, so you can't
log in the usual way.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> I think it's a safety thing, kind
> of. Instead you are supposed to use sudo with your user password for
> each action (you don't have to enter your password every time though).
> There are tons of information about this out there, here's the first
> that I found a minute ago:
>
> http://www.debuntu.org/2006/04/24/34-ubuntu-default-root-password-or-the-sudo-way
>
> It's old, but not much happened since then in this case.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> Leila
>
> You're welcome. Happy new year, by the way!
>
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