no root passwd debian

[James Knott]

chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I just installed ubuntu. It never asked for a root password. It asked
> me to create a user but never a root password. Now I can't do
> administrative tasks without it.
> This is my first ever debian experience.
> !?

IIRC, with Ubuntu, the first user is a superuser, but not root, that has
permissions to do admin stuff, including set the root password.


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