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Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer)
Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer)
Posted Oct 17, 2005 12:50 UTC (Mon) by jjstwerff (subscriber, #4082)In reply to: Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer) by nathan
Parent article: Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer)
passwd root
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Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer)
Posted Oct 17, 2005 16:22 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link]
> passwd root
I've had to explain this to several people (all experienced Unix/Linux users) who were all quite surprised not to be prompted to for the root password. It doesn't help that the answer to this question is buried at the bottom of a very long FAQ which isn't that easy to find on the ubuntu.com website.