root user

[Jeffrey Gray]

Well, I don't see many talk about enabling the root account on
here...Maybe because it's not supposed to be accessed for security
reasons???

Anyway, from your terminal just run 'sudo passwd root'.  Enter your
password.  Enter what you want the root password to be.  Hit enter and
repeat root password.  Done.  You can not su - to root to save typing
sudo before every command that you wish to run privileged.

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/1/1 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/1/1 Leila M <mech.loulou at gmail.com>:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to access the root account but I
>>> cant do so using my password. I didn't specify any password during the
>>> system installation process except the one I use to access my account.
>>> any ideas about how to do so
>>
>> There is no root account by default,
>
> Correction: There is one, but it doesn't have a password, so you can't
> log in the usual way.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
>> I think it's a safety thing, kind
>> of. Instead you are supposed to use sudo with your user password for
>> each action (you don't have to enter your password every time though).
>> There are tons of information about this out there, here's the first
>> that I found a minute ago:
>>
>> http://www.debuntu.org/2006/04/24/34-ubuntu-default-root-password-or-the-sudo-way
>>
>> It's old, but not much happened since then in this case.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Johnny Rosenberg
>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>>
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>> Leila
>>
>> You're welcome. Happy new year, by the way!
>>
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