Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Luis Maceira<luis_a_maceira@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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 docs
> that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use
> in these cases,so after we can choose our own su password?
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Ubuntu doesn't have the root user enabled, instead you have to use
#sudo apt-get install to achieve any administrative task.
But you can enable it using #sudo passwd su.
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