<!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"> Actually, setting up the root password is very easy. type sudo passwd root. It will ask you for the password. That's all there is to it. Eric S. Johansson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:fgkvoc$2mv$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Nils Kassube wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Kent Paul Dolan wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">No need to become nervous. There is no default password but root login is disabled by default. See <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo"><https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo></a> for more details. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I have not figured out how to use vmware server's remote console without having a root password enabled on the host machine. Any suggestions? </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 687-6972 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:w.clapham@csuohio.edu">w.clapham@csuohio.edu</a> </pre> </body> </html>