Re: [Sheflug] Kubuntu/Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 Spampd

[Dean Sas <dean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 16:18, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> 
> How did you find out the root password? When I installed Kubuntu yesterday I 
> wasn't given a chance to set it, and now I think I'm going to have to boot 
> another system, chroot into Kubuntu and set the password from there.
> 

Ubuntu doesn't have a root password set, preferring instead to use sudo.

To set a root password run "sudo passwd root" and choose whatever you 
want the root password to be. To go back to the Ubuntu way of doing 
things run sudo passwd -l root

Dean

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