<div>On 12/11/05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <<a href="mailto:jtwdyp@ttlc.net">jtwdyp@ttlc.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 About the root password... During the install of ubuntu 5.10, I _WAS_ asked for a non-root username and password. (which I always set to a generic user that I only use until I can manually configure what I want in /etc/skel And then manually create my regular user accounts with specific user ID's that remain the same on ALL of my linux file systems...) BUT it did _NOT_ ask me for a root password, nor did it ask me to take note of a default root password... thus I can't even su to root to make the configuration changes I need, in order to be able to stand ubuntu... such as force run level 3 booting and use startx to optionally fire up the gui etc... etc... Is it normal for the installer to skip asking the user for the root password??? Is there a default root password on the ubuntu 5.10 default install? Else, what do I gotta do to fix that? (I may not exactly be a linux newbie but I never had to do that before...) Thanks in advance! Joe </blockquote></div> If you are installing ubuntu first time, follow the starter guide. It's best source of information for beginning your ubuntu journey. read the starter guide here > <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html">http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html</a> revant