I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user

[Derek Broughton]

Frank Hale wrote:

>> there is absolutely, no information on what the root defaul password is.
> 
> This tripped me up and had me confused for a while when helping a
> friend install Ubuntu. I would have bet my life on the fact that you
> couldn't possibly install Linux without at some point entering in a
> password for root. In all my years of using Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware,
> Crux... I've never seen an installation that did not have you put a
> password in for the root user during installation. I would have of
> course died from that bet but that is beside the point... =)
> 
> Turns out that you have to give root a password after installation by
> using sudo. Now how many new users have not put a root password on
> their box? I bet the number is quite large. Shouldn't the installer be
> tweaked to *make* you enter some type of initial password for root?

NO!  The whole point is to _not_ have a root password. I just don't
understand why this is such a difficult concept.
-- 
derek