root password Ubuntu

[NikChillin]

Hi,

I am new to this and have found a puzzling problem. I have installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine and need to do some things as a root account. In the terminal it is asking for the root password which is fine but I haven't set one. I have rei-installed it because I thought that I had missed a step but I haven't. can someone tell me how to overcome this or reset the password?

Thanks

[kmount]

Try sudo yourcommand

 

or if it insists on a true root password (which is kind of not good) you'll want to run sudo passwd root (and put in your own password first for sudo, and then the one you want to use for root twice)

[Steve21]

Hi,

I am new to this and have found a puzzling problem. I have installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine and need to do some things as a root account. In the terminal it is asking for the root password which is fine but I haven't set one. I have rei-installed it because I thought that I had missed a step but I haven't. can someone tell me how to overcome this or reset the password?

Thanks

 

In Ubuntu you don't ever need to login as root. You use sudo with your password.

 

It's basically UAC style.

 

Steve

[Geoff]

although you can turn it off

 

Enable and Disable Ubuntu Root Password

 

I usually do this when I'm doing the initial setup. Once the server is deployed on the network I use SSH keys.

[NikChillin]

In Ubuntu you don't ever need to login as root. You use sudo with your password.

 

It's basically UAC style.

 

Steve

 

It's part of an OU study and I need to partition drives as a root user to do that.

[Gatt]

As already stated - sudo should be enough

to stay in root (not recommended!!) type:

 

sudo su

 

to leave root - just type exit

[Steve21]

It's part of an OU study and I need to partition drives as a root user to do that.

 

Sorry, maybe I explained bad You don't "login" with root. You just use it as sudo (e.g. above as @Gatt said )

 

Thus never need to know it's default password etc.

 

Steve

[NikChillin]

Cheers guys, as I said it is for a training course so it isn't a problem with security etc.

[NikChillin]

Wunderbar! Solved many permission issues I was experiencing too.