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Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Mon Jul 16 19:03:06 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 04:19 +0930, Rapael Morcha wrote:
> It should ask for root user's password while installing IIRC.

No, login as the root user is disabled. See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

> In ubuntu there are two types of users 1) Normal user 2) Super user

This is kinda, somehow, true, but saying it that way is probably
confusing. Again, please check the link above

> $ su root
> enter_password_for_root_user
> $ whoami
> root

This cannot and will not happen of a default Ubuntu configuration,
because of the disabled root login. There is no password (and there
cannot be) which will be accepted.





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