On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:25 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > - From what you write, I have to assume that there is a good reason, why > the person who installed the system did not give you the root password. Isn't that normal if you choose to setup sudo during installation? I don't think I've set up a debian box like that, but I think it's the normal Ubuntu way, right? There is no root password; sudo is the only way. Richard