On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:56 +0100, Shelley & Oren wrote: > One thing though. I do not believe that anywhere along the > installation, I was prompted to set a password for the root account. > > I was prompted to set up a user account and a password for it, which I > did. > > Now I cannot log in as root so I am a bit stuck…
Ubuntu does not enable the root account by default. > Does this mean I need to start a new installation? > > I obviously cannot make any administrative changes so my account is a > s good as a goldfish on a football pitch…. Don't worry, you can use 'sudo' and you can read about it at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
