23 May
2010
23 May
'10
1:09 p.m.
On 23/05/10 12:52, Anthony Anson wrote:
Trouble there is that the Eee comes wit ready-loaded OS and no root password.
It doesn't need one, there are now very few reasons why you need to log in as root, ever. Or worse still (Ted) leave root shells laying around :)
if you sudo as the first user you created when setting up the machine (as that user is automatically a sudoer) it will prompt you for that users password again and then run the command as root.
This is true for any user permitted in the sudoer file, or more generally any user in the group that is permitted in the sudoer file.
Or as Brett says if you want a root shell then run sudo -i (and type in your password)