[Cialug] ubuntu 5.10 [root ?]

[Bryan Baker]

But the whole point of shipping that way are, for most desktop uses 
keeping root disabled and using sudo keeps things more secure since 
you're less likely to shoot yourself in the foot if something pops up 
asking for a password. (can!=should).

On Nov 27, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> 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 ?]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Question:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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