<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> This being a most frequent FAQ and with the growing popularity of Ubuntu and the imminent release of Dapper, it is suggested that the Dapper installer provide for documentation on Ubuntu's philosophy on the root password and point the user to URL <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo</a> as was pointed out in one of the replies. Alfred Vahau Kent Borg wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20060406134243.G5934@borg.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:22:51PM -0300, Facundo Barrera wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello list: I have just installed ubuntu and i dont know the root password???? Where it is??? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Warning, this is a frequently asked question, some will get angry with you... Answer: There is no root password. If you need to do an administrative thing from the GUI, it will ask for your regular password first. If you want to do administrative things from a command line type: $ sudo your-command It will ask for your password. -kb </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>