On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:50, Jim Cheetham wrote:It's Ubuntu - use 'sudo' instead of 'su', otherwise the instructions are fine. ("There Is No Root" in Ubuntu, rather like in OS X ...)
sudo passwd root, and then root can be logged in. there is a root account, it is not passworded by default.
But perhaps you should think back to *why* Ubunto chose to have no root user enabled, before changing things.
They aimed at a 'simple installation' without too many questions, and one less password to remember.
Telling someone to set a password today means that they'll forget it tomorrow.
the first user made can do anything via sudo
As can any user added to the sudo list with the visudo command.
-jim
