Luis Maceira wrote: > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use > in these cases,so after we can choose our own su password? > > > > >
Hi, Ubuntu works with "sudo" only (and your user password), the root password isn't configured. You can use the "passwd" command to set it I believe. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org