On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM, 74yrs old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lists. > > How to create administorID and password or any alternative solution to > overcome the problem noted below. In ubuntu, it appears there is no > provision to create password for "root" or "administrator".whereas in other > distros there is provision to create password for "root". Since I newbie to > Ubuntu 8.04 I request valuable guidance. > > > > > > > > Hi, for security in ubuntu, the use of sudo is preferred. root user is > assigned random password, afaik. But if you want to set the password for > root, that is very simple. > $ sudo passwd root
You can also do $ sudo su - and that will log you in as root . Again, this is not the recommended way for doing things in Ubuntu - u should use "sudo" . hth, Sanjay -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
