Ubuntu wierdness

[Bill Ricker]

I thought Ubuntu defaulted to not having a ROOT password at all (none
works not nothing works), but using SUDO (which prompts for YOUR
password). Did you subvert that?

On 8/14/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yesterday I changed the root password on Ubuntu because I thought that
> someone else was going to pick up the computer and install Windows XP,
> but he decided not to come which is fine, and I decided to install
> VMWare server from the Ubuntu commercial archives. However, my new root
> password no longer works from the GUI (GNOME). I can bring up a virtual
> terminal and log into root fine. The new root password is 8 characters
> consisting of upper, lower, and numbers.
>
> Note that I had powered down the system from the time I reset the
> passwords. As I mentioned, the password works fine logging in to a
> virtual terminal as root, just not for administrative tasks from GNOME.
>
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Bill
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