Default root user password

[neil woolford]

> Hi,
> It's an old issue on this list. Enable root login.

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> Computer -> System Configuration -> Login Screen setup (enter your password)
> Click on Security Tab
> Check Allow Root Login with GDM

On a default Breezy install that would be System->Administration->Login
Screen Setup.  Then the security tab.

But please *please* don't do it until you have read
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo?highlight=%28rootsudo%29

It is genuinely the case that a default install of Ubuntu can be
configured and operated using sudo rather than root.  (The exceptions to
this are head-spinningly complex requirements.)

Enable root if you really want to, but *please try* the default setup of
sudo for users (such as the first created) who are privileged to use it.

All the gui administration tools are set up to use it too...

Neil


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> Vaio Lord wrote:
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> > I have installed Ubuntu now and can login as the user the install 
> > method had me create however I cannot change config or any packages.  
> > Trying to login with root is denied, I am trying the only password the 
> > installation asked me for but get denied.  Can anyone help me out.  
> > Does it have a default one I don't know about ?
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