Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:42:07AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>> 2009/10/27 <jerry.webb@???>:
>>
>>> My new mpc arrived yesterday at home. I ditched all of the pointless packaging and brought the dinky white cardboard box into work to try the thing out but I left the sheet of paper with the default root password on the table. Any suggestions for what it might be folks?
>>>
>>>
>> xubuntu? root? viglen?
>>
>> Easier to just boot to single user mode, and when you get a prompt
>> just look in /etc/passwd for the 1000 user and set their password with
>> "passwd <username>" I'd have thought.
>>
>
> Doesn't single-user mode ask for the root password these days? I
> know my systems do...
>
> Hugo.
>
>
root doesn't have a password by default on Ubuntu. If you do sudo passwd
root and give root a password then as I recall it will then need the
root password for single user mode.
Alan.
