Hi William,
I was puzzled by what Robert wrote which I thought could be confusing to
a new user.
It was just the wording.
It happens - many a time professionally I have had the shock horror of
discovering that what I thought I had very clearly stated in
presentations, documentation and tutorials was totally misinterpreted
and enshrined in customers' official documents when they asked me to
review them.
Regards
Sid.
On 15/10/14 02:28, William Hermans wrote:
Sid, if you've ever used Ubuntu, then you should already know what
Robert is saying. Root by default on Ubuntu is disabled. That does not
mean there is no root account, it means the root account is DISABLED.
To boot, information about this is all over the web, one simple google
search would have provided more than enough information to figure the
problem out . . .
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Sid Boyce <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 14/10/14 01:01, Robert Nelson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM,Â
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
 After installing ubuntu console on BBB from here:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Trusty_14.04 and
connecting with Putty
login as: ubuntu
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>'s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone63 armv7l)
 * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Wed Aug 13 18:11:23 2014 from 192.168.7.1
ubuntu@arm:~$ sudo passwd root
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
what is the [sudo] password, root password?
How can I login as root? change password for root?
It's ubuntu, by "default" there is no "root" user..
This is the way ubuntu has been since 2006, if you want a root
user
you need to enable/create it.
Regards,
With every Ubuntu version I have used, there is a root user just
that a password is not set for it during install as is the case
with other distros.
At no stage do you need to do "useradd root".
login as ubuntu
"sudo su" and give the ubuntu passwd "temppwd"
"passwd root" and set the root password.
Regards
Sid.
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