On Monday 29 June 2009 16:28:11 thveillon.debian wrote: > 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
Or you can do sudo -i or sudo su and enter the main user's password to get a shell from which you can do administrative tasks one after the other without having to keep entering your password. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
