steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I have a feeling that the people who think it is possible haven't used
>> Ubuntu in a while. They have the root password set to a hash. In order
>> to change it to something you would know you would have to know the hash
>> and they won't tell you what it is.
>
> Hehe, that's not entirely correct.
>
> The pund sign is there to indicate that there is no password. Simply
> enter 'sudo passwd' to set the root password (which I do to all Ubunto
> installs I work on).
>
Hi Steve,
Thanks for this, I may try this sometime, it looks interesting. I will
wait until I have a second box to set up, however. Don't want to be shut
out of everything.
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