[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

Jordan Fox vmifox at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 19:49:13 UTC 2009


if you are trying to use su to get root access in Ubuntu, then that is the
problem, not the password.  Ubuntu doesn't easily work with the su command.
But, sudo -s will give you a root session similar to using su.

Jordan

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>wrote:

> I installed the latest ubuntu server for a client realllllly late last
> night, and the passwd for root is not working!
> *bites keyboard*
>
> and i screwed or what? anything i can do? I do know that i defined the
> passwd for root, and I documented it at the time as well.
>
>
> Charles "Zombie" Bird
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