On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Ronald Chmara wrote: > /etc/hostname
D'oh! Of course. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime I'll look there. > root is created by default, with no password login capability. Well, I've always had a root login (with password) on that system. And I could log in as root for administrative work. > You can take a look at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, the "!" in shadow > is the "don't allow this account to login" feature. There ought to be a way to assign a password to root; perhaps if I sudo to root I can run passwd successfully. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
