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Re: [LUG] Admin password in Ubuntu NBR

 

2009/5/25 trewornan <trewornan@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Ubuntu is a pain over this: there is no root user let alone a password (you're 
> supposed to use sudo for everything). You need to create a root user and then 
> change the permissions on su.

The solution was to boot into the recovery menu, select root, drop to
a root shell prompt & run passwd.

See: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword


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