What happened to my root user
 

I just installed umbutu 10 on a virtual machine running on VMware workstation 7

Workstation asked me for a username & password, which I supplied.

The install went fine, and I logged on with the credintials that I provided to WorkStation. So far so good.

I then downloaded Webmin and installed it, again no problems.

I go to the provided link: https://localhost:10000 and it wants me to log-in as root.

But I don't have the root password and checking umbutu it does not appear that I have a root user so that I can set a password

HELP!! HELP!! HELP!! HELP!! HELP!! HELP!! HELP!!

If you want to play by Ubuntu's rules, someone will show you a work around sooner or later. If no one knows it here, try posting at their forums.

If you want a functional root account, run this on the terminal:, give your password then pick one for root.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Also, the "HELP!! HELP!!" thing is really annoying, immature and doesn't make people want to help, at least in my opinion.

With Ubuntu the root user account is disabled by default due to the fact that Ubuntu's user base has a lot of non-Linux savy users so their suggested method for accessing the root account is sudo for individual commands or "sudo -i" as a command by itself if you need more extended control which actually logs you in as root. Otherwise use "sudo passwd root" to activate the root user account

Ok, I worked through the nuances <sic> of Umbutu & Webmin and got things working.

Thank you to all who provided help.

Hoping we all have matured :P