[ubuntu-in] System administrator to enable user sharing- how?

[mallikarjun arjun]

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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Ravi Kumar <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM, 74yrs old <withblessings at gmail.com>
> 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
>
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