Hi, by default the root password on ubuntu is disabled. To perform root-like tasks you use a pre-command called sudo. Multiple users can be a super-user, the one you installed with is the first one. If he does
sudo pico /etc/fstab ubuntu will ask for the password of the user you are logged in with (so, not the root password, as root does not have one) after you enter your password, pico will be started with super-user rights. That's all to it. If you insist on using root, do sudo passwd root which will give root a password, so that you can login with root as an accountname. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Monday 18 October 2010 16:03:44 roy mukasa wrote: > Hey guys am having a slight issue with ubuntu 10.10. > I installed it on an oracle virtualbox which is installed on my suse > 11.2. I noticed that it did not ask me for a root password but only > asked me for my username and password during the installation. I am > unable to perform certain tasks that are required by the root user. > So i would like to know if there is a default root password that it > comes with or if there is a quick solution to this problem or do i > have to use a live cd to change the password after mounting the > partiitions. > Thanks in advance. > > Regards
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