[ILUG-Cochin.org] No root user

Sreejith K sreejithemk at gmail.com
Thu May 7 09:38:21 IST 2009


Use 'sudo passwd root' to enable the root account.

Its disabled by default due to security reasons

Regards,

Sreejith K
K 7 - C O M P U T I N G
www.k7computing.com




On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Jos Collin <joscollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why there is no root user in gNewSense? During installation process,
> it did not ask me to enter a root password. Instead it asked me to
> create a sudo user. I think there is no root user in Ubuntu also. Why?
>
> - Jos Collin
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