On 2010/07/31 3:40 PM, Michael John Walters wrote: > Hello All, > > One of the members of CLUG gave Winson a computer with Ubuntu 10.04 > installed. > > I also burned another copy of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop for other purposes. > > That member who gave Winson did not give him any password at all. > > Whenever Winson tries to boot the computer, the boot proceeds to the > login prompt and offers for choice of user either CD or Other. But both > of those options require entering a password. > > I ask the fellow who gave Winson the computer with Ubuntu 10.04 on it, > "What is Winson supposed to do?". > > All help, and especially the help of the person who donated the computer > to Winson is appreciated in advance. > > Regards, > > Michael Walters > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
Ubuntu and most of it's variants don't /use/ a root password though it can be set if you really want. The root password is not set by default for security reasons. The effect is that if an attacker attempts to log in as root, they will have no success no matter how many times they try because the root user is not /able/ to log in directly... The proper method for Ubuntu / Kubuntu / etc. is to log in as an admin enabled user - usally the user that was first set up - and use the command line as such: # sudo <whichever command/binary you want to use> password: The system will prompt you for the user's password. The password is hidden - in fact, no characters of any sort are displayed, so be careful typing the user's password. If they are set up as an admin and are also in the "sudoer" file, then the application will(should) execute as root. A neat little trick I use to keep from having to type sudo all the time is to run: # sudo su - It's a neat trick, but don't get in the habit of doing it all the time - it's bad muju. Regards, Andrew Vliet _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
