On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Michael John Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > My friend, Winson, who is also a member of CLUG, received a computer > from one of the members of CLUG with Ubuntu on it. But Winson does not > have the root passward. > > I have a CD of Ubutntu 10.04 desktop burned on Sunday 2010 June 20. > > Is it possible using that CD to change the root password without ever > knowing the original root password? If so, could you please tell me how > I could help Winson change the root password to something he can easily > remember? > > What I would do first, is change the root password to something we both > can easily remember, then set up Winson as user account. Then he can > change the root password to what he wants it to be. > > All the above steps are easy except the first step, to change the root > password to something we both can remember without ever knowing the > original root password. > > All help is appreciated in advance. > > Regards, > > Michael
I'm a bit late, but I'll throw in my two cents anyway. A quick google search for 'Ubuntu root password' provides some insight... there is no root password on a default Ubuntu installation. It is generally not needed, and sudo is normally used instead. See this page for more details: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo Also, the page shows you the command you need to run to set the root password. -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
