[AuckLUG] Help with Ubuntu

[Nevyn]

It's not that difficult to change - at a command prompt type in "sudo
passwd root" and assign a password.

On 10/18/06, Morgan Varaine <mvaraine at gmail.com> wrote:
> And remember folks, if you need root, you can just "sudo su" ....
>
> Which I wish they'd change...
>
> :)
>
> On 10/17/06, Alan Purchase <alan at tregenna.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:55 +1300, ken at lomax.gen.nz wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > After seeing people extol the virtues of Ubuntu on this list, I thought I
> > > would give it a try.
> > >
> > > I have a DVD for Ubuntu Version 6.0 from Linux Magazine August 2006. Today I
> > > installed a 'Server Install'. The install went reasonably ok. then the
> > > problems began. Firstly I had to reboot and go into rescue mode to assign a
> > > password to root, so I could work on the machine. Then I wanted to install
> > > some services (nptd, dhcpd, named, etc). They did not appear to be installed
> > > and I do not remember any screen during install that asked which services
> > > that I wanted. So I decided to look on the dvd. While the machine recognised
> > > the dvd, it would not display anything using 'ls' except for "." and "..".
> > > It appears that there is little that I can do with this machine.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something? I am very familiar with RedHat/Fedora and have done
> > > many installs and maintenance on those machines.
> > >
> > > Can someone point me to where I can get some help, or do I go back to
> > > Fedora?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Ken
> >
> > Try the Ubuntu web site http://www.ubuntu.com/ , Wiki
> > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ , Knowledge Tree
> > http://wiki.ktdms.com/Ubuntu_6.06 and Forums
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ . And stick with Ubuntu, believe me it's
> > worth it.
> >
> > Cheers, Alan.
> >
> > >
> > >
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