<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Kent, This is normal. You are not supposed to administer Ubuntu as root. This is in many cases dangerous. Rather, the way Ubuntu works is that you are asked to create one intial user. This user has administrative rights, in the sense that it can use SUDO to launch any administrative operations. In effect, this means that when logged in as that user, you can launch any administrative operation and you will be prompted for your password (for security purposes) and the operation will take place. You can also use the "sudo" command with the same password control. If for some strange reason you really need to log in as root, you can actually "sudo bash" or "sudo su -" which will do the trick. But at no point do you ever need to have a root password for Ubuntu. It is normally blocked out. You never log in as root. Consider this some form of very simplistic role based access control. Your normal user has the administrator role when it enters the correct password. Unfortunately not much fine grain control, but still... better than full access to root. :) Gilles. Kent Paul Dolan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200711041640.lA4Gel5S014502@well.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, new kid on the block here. I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 (64 bit desktop version), and I was not offered a chance to set the root password during the install. Did I miss something, or is the default password for root published somewhere? I'm quite nervous about the default being left in place, so any help would be appreciated. I do know one trick: boot from the installation drive, remove the shadow password file, null the password for root in the password file, boot again from the hard drive, and go forward starting with a null root password, but that seems like more work than I should have to do. Help? xanthian. </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta content="text/html; " http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Signature Home Chastity</title> <meta content="Gilles Gravier" name="author"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <table style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); width: 500px; height: 73px;" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); white-space: nowrap;"> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>Gilles Gravier = <a href="mailto:Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a> = <a href="http://www.gravier.org/">http://www.gravier.org/</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>ICQ : <a href="http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?Uin=77488526">77488526</a></tt> <tt> || </tt><tt>MSN Messenger : <a href="http://members.msn.com/Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a></tt><tt> </tt>Skype<tt> : <a href="callto://ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt> || </tt><tt>Y! : <a href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt style="font-weight: bold;"> || </tt><tt>AOL : <a href="aim:goim?screenname=gillesgravier">gillesgravier</a> </tt><tt>PGP Key ID : <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x8DE6D026&op=index">0x8DE6D026</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://www.gmap-track.com/user.php?user=ggravier">My Last Known Position / Ma Derniere Position Connue</a> "Chastity is its own punishment." (Solomon Short) [David Gerrold] </tt>"De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la chasteté est la plus aberrante." [Anatole France] </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </body> </html>