No password set for "root" during installation

ChootarLaal · 03-01-2008, 10:38 AM

while installing ubuntu 7.1, i never got prompted to set a password for the root.
so now if i have to issue a

Code:

su

command, i dont know what the password is. any way around this?

edit:nevermind, i reset it through "users & groups".

bbfuller · 03-01-2008, 10:43 AM

Hello ChootarLaal

One of the features of Ubuntu is that you don't have a root user.

You would use the command:

Code:

sudo

wherever you would have previously used su and give it your ordinary users password when requested.

That acquires you root privileges on a job by job basis.

ChootarLaal · 03-01-2008, 11:05 AM

thanks thats good info. ill keep that in mind.

anupamsr · 03-01-2008, 12:18 PM

Still, I personally believe that every user should know the password for root. So I do this: "sudo su -" and then "passwd".

Also, please mark the subject as [solved].

IndyGunFreak · 03-02-2008, 12:50 AM

All you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu's use of sudo and root.

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