On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 12:38 +0000, Tom Furie wrote: > Without further input from Richard we have no way of knowing for > certain what the exact situation is. We have got ;). You are right, Mrs. L, Mr. S and I'm mistaken. You are only mistaken to your self-doubts. Richard has got no root password. The password of the first user, for Linux distros it's likely UID 1000, this password quasi is the "root" password.