no root account ubuntu?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I had a tech install the latest ubuntu on my computer. He swears he was
> never asked for a password for root. It only asked that he create one
> account. The password for that account does not work for root (say, using
> su). Is there a default password for root? Does root not exist?

Ubuntu does everything via sudo. By default there is no valid password
for root. If you want to go in as root use "sudo su"

Colin.

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