On 12/01/2011 03:25 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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 Rich,
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