Thanx for your help. Everything is now working fine for me. On 9 August 2015 at 17:48, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Run the following command in a terminal; > > sudo passwd -aS > > Read the man page for passwd especially the section explaining the > section explaining the output of the -S command. > > If you are satisfied their is no password already set then run this > command; > > sudo passwd root > > This will prompt you to enter a password and the confirm it. You > should the be able to change you login to root by issuing the su (switch > user) command. > > Be aware this an "off label" method for Ubuntu, you should prefer the > sudo method when doing stuff that requires root. > > Cheers Ross Drummond > > > On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:28:27 +1200 > Davin Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have recently purchased a laptop and have installed Lubunti > > GNU/Linux onto it. > > > > I created a user called "davin" and a user called "www" for everyday > > use. > > > > I need root access to do a chmod on /var/www/html > > > > How do I go about setting the "root" password? > > > > I can access commands like apt-get install apache2 from the "davin" > > account. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin. Davin Pearson http://davin.50webs.com
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