Sid, if you've ever used Ubuntu, then you should already know what Robert is saying. Root by default on Ubuntu is disabled. That does not mean there is no root account, it means the root account is DISABLED.
To boot, information about this is all over the web, one simple google search would have provided more than enough information to figure the problem out . . . On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Sid Boyce <sbo...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > On 14/10/14 01:01, Robert Nelson wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM, <janszymanski12...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After installing ubuntu console on BBB from here: >>> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Trusty_14.04 and connecting with >>> Putty >>> >>> login as: ubuntu >>> ubuntu@192.168.7.2's password: >>> Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone63 armv7l) >>> >>> * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ >>> Last login: Wed Aug 13 18:11:23 2014 from 192.168.7.1 >>> ubuntu@arm:~$ sudo passwd root >>> [sudo] password for ubuntu: >>> >>> what is the [sudo] password, root password? >>> >>> How can I login as root? change password for root? >>> >> It's ubuntu, by "default" there is no "root" user.. >> >> This is the way ubuntu has been since 2006, if you want a root user >> you need to enable/create it. >> >> Regards, >> >> With every Ubuntu version I have used, there is a root user just that a > password is not set for it during install as is the case with other distros. > > At no stage do you need to do "useradd root". > > login as ubuntu > "sudo su" and give the ubuntu passwd "temppwd" > "passwd root" and set the root password. > Regards > Sid. > > -- > Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot > Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support > Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach > Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
