[Cialug] ubuntu 5.10 [root ?]

Jonathan Bailey jcbailey at code0.net
Sun Nov 27 21:05:14 CST 2005


Just in case anyone is interested in the actual way to change the password,
just do 'sudo passwd' and that works fine.

Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Maupin
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 7:12 PM
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Cialug] ubuntu 5.10 [root ?]

I did --

Thanks




-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Kevin C. Smith
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 7:11 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] ubuntu 5.10 [root ?]

I'm assuming you found that root is disabled and Ubuntu uses sudo?

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:55 -0600, Alan Maupin wrote:
> Disregard - I seem to have found the solution to the root password 
> problem.  Excuse me.
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Alan Maupin
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:45 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: [Cialug] ubuntu 5.10 [root ?]
> 
> 
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> Question:
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> I just installed ubuntu 5.10 on my ibook.   During the installation a
> point never came where the installer asked for a root password to be 
> established.  So I've completely installed the OS, logged on as a user 
> and booted into Gnome.  My question is, how do I establish the root 
> password on ubuntu?
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> Thanks
> 
> Alan
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