Re: [LUG] ubuntu and root

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's at the rugby club,  all in one pice which it would not have been 
had their been a large hammer to hand.

Paul

David Johnson wrote:

> On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 21:46, Neil Williams wrote:
>  
>
> > ?? What do you mean? You didn't set a root password? All distributions
> > create a root account - all the installer wants from you is a password for
> > root. You get the option to not create a user account in some but I don't
> > see how you'd end up without a root account at all.
> >    
>
> Ubuntu is somewhat different to Debian. There is a root account, but it's 
> effectively disabled - you can only get root privileges with sudo, using the 
> password of your user account.
>
>  
>
> > What happens when you DO type su?
> >    
>
> It will keep failing, as there's no root password set.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>  


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