10 Sep
2009
10 Sep
'09
11:41 a.m.
2009/9/10 Liz Quilty <liz(a)velofille.com>:
2009/9/10 Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz>
In Ubuntu there is NO root password be default. And by no password I don't mean 'you don't need to enter one', I mean 'there is nothing you can possibly type at the password prompt that will be the correct password'
"sudo -i" will get you a root shell (with your user password)
Sorry, I dont recall anyone mentioning any particular distro.
Liz
It would help if the OP did mention what DIstro they're using. I didn't mean to suggest that any of the previous advice was 'wrong', for most distros 'su -' is right.