Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops
On Monday 03 January 2005 07:29 am, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribió:
> [...]
>
> > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box. Too bad I
> > forgot what I used for the root password :-)
>
> Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or Knoppix,
When you installed Ubuntu you were asked to create a user. That user is given
root via sudo. So, you can do:
sudo synaptic
At the command prompt. And you will then be asked for *your* password.
You can also set a password for root from the command prompt.
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peace,
Alvin Smith
http://www.alvinsmith.com
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