Saturday, September 20, 2008

Enabling root password in Ubuntu

what a nice system indeed...the only annoying thing is that by default the root user don't have any password (ikes...but btw the root got logon deny..)

Ok so we need the root password to do a variety of things (ie configuring things).

1. boot as usual under ubuntu
2. open a shell terminal (applications/accessories) should be the last entry
3. type the following thing :
sudo passwd root
4. it will asks for your password then it will asks you to setup a root password

VoilĂ  now everything is setted and you can, without any problem do a "su" command (it will asks for a pwd..the one you setted in point 4)

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