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<DIV>What Daniel and others are saying is right.</DIV>
<DIV>You don't know root password but you can set one.</DIV>
<DIV> If you have grub to boot in linux OS, you can boot in recovery mode and will enter at root prompt. You can set the password by</DIV>
<DIV> command passwd (or something like that) which will ask you for new password twice. And your password is set.</DIV>
<DIV>Am I missing something or I just discovered some loop hole? </DIV>
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<DIV>-Sushil</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com">Daniel Carrera</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 04/06/06 23:02:03</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu Help and User Discussions</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: Root password??</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hello,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ubuntu uses 'sudo' for root access. If you want to run (say) the command</DIV>
<DIV>'ls' as root you type:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>sudo ls</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It then asks you for a password. Type your usual user password. The same</DIV>
<DIV>one you use to login as a regular user.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>By default, Ubuntu has the root account disabled and uses sudo instead.</DIV>
<DIV>This is more secure because it makes it less likely that you'll</DIV>
<DIV>accidentally run something as root. And it's not too inconvenient</DIV>
<DIV>because sudo remembers the password. If you need to type many commands</DIV>
<DIV>as root, you only type the password once.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>Daniel.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Facundo Barrera wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>> Hello list:</DIV>
<DIV>> I have just installed ubuntu and i dont know the root</DIV>
<DIV>> password????</DIV>
<DIV>></DIV>
<DIV>> Where it is???</DIV>
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<DIV>> thanks</DIV>
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