Cannot login

[Neil Woolford]

At 16:16 02/10/04, you wrote:

>Just looked at /etc/passwd and there is no mention of root as there is in 
>my Mepis installation...Should this be so ??

This is normal for a default installation of Ubuntu.

Rather than have a root account for administration, the idea is that you 
use the 'sudo' (super-user do) command when you need to do 
administration.  This command asks you for a password, which is your normal 
one, not a special root one.  You can set this up so that different users 
have appropriate levels of power to change/damage the system.  The first 
user created has full root powers via 'sudo' by default.

The FAQ at 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.5722653677 
covers this too.

Neil 
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