Luis Maceira wrote:
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docsthat come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use in these cases,so after we can choose our own su password?
Ubuntu has no root password set by default (well, it does really, but it's not enterable).
The user configured on install is a member of sudoers, so if you're logged in as him you can run
sudo passwdto set a usable root password and carry on suing to your heart's content. The ubuntu-users list frequently features discussion of sudo vs su.
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