Re: [SLUG] resolution will not save

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 00:03:37 EDT


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).

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Steve Szmidt

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