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Hello All, I am a new linux user. I have ubuntu installed. When I try to get updates I am having problems. I am prompted for a system password in order to make any changes. But when I installed ubuntu I did not setup my system to need a password. So how do I fix this problem so I can download updates?
Hello All, I am a new linux user. I have ubuntu installed. When I try to get updates I am having problems. I am prompted for a system password in order to make any changes. But when I installed ubuntu I did not setup my system to need a password. So how do I fix this problem so I can download updates?
Thanks,
tennisbum
When I installed Ubuntu I did not set up a password either.
However when I go to open/start my firewall or use Synaptic Package Mgr it ask's me for my root for authentication.
Your root password may be all that you need.
Hope this helps.
Normally, (and Ubuntu is abnormal in this respect!) Ubuntu defaults to disabling the root acct, and instead setting up the first (non-root) user created during install as having full sudo rights to root cmds thus
Code:
sudo <some privileged cmd>
passwd:
#here you supply your user's passwd, not the (non-existent) root passwd
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