Got a problem after I Installed Ubuntu (no root )
oh, well, through the whole installation process, i was never asked to make a root acc + password.
just at a certain time, a popup showed where i had to create my account + password, but nothin about root. Now, that ubuntu is installed, i have no root, which is hilarious. Anybody knows what could have caused that..? p.s. using the newest release of Ubuntu. |
Debian and all Debian related distros (such as Ubuntu) do not have root users by default. Instead, there is a command called sudo which lets each user run commands with elevated privileges after they type their password. A nice thing about it is that you can edit the /etc/sudoers file to control who can use sudo, and what they are able to get admin privileges to. For more info check out the man page for sudo.
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Debian does have root. Ubuntu is the only distro I've seen using sudo in the way it does. Just wanted to clear it out :)
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Even Ubuntu has root. You just need to enable it by customising the password (which is not known by default).
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#sudo passwd root |
You can also run sudo su to convert yourself into root.
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- sudo passwd root - sudo passwd -l root |
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- sudo passwd root - sudo passwd -l root |
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