no root account ubuntu?

[Christopher Browne]

On 2010-07-30, at 17:23, 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?

Not odd...

On my laptop, there was no password set for root - instead,  the human  
user was given privileges to use sudo to access the root account.
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