On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 15:15 +0000, Simon Royal wrote:

Hi

I have a Mac which dual boots between Mac OSX and Ubuntu 6, and Ubuntu boots by default. I know I need to switch something in Yaboot but I can't seem to work it out.

Sorry never used Yaboot so not really the best person to advise on this (and guesswork on bootloaders is usually a bad thing) Ubuntu Forums will probably be a good start for some advice.

Also Ubuntu doesn't have root user and I can't work that out either.

This is an intentional thing for Ubuntu, it's to discourage using the system of Root logins.

What you have instead is users (like the one you generated as you installed the system) who are listed in the /etc/sudoers. These users can execute a command as root by placing sudo in front of it and then typing their password when prompted.

This is considered more secure than using the root login.

sudo is quite powerful as you can restrict certain users to only being able to sudo certain commands, control whether they are prompted for their password or not, log all sudo commands etc etc.

However if this is not for you then login as your regular user, and do a sudo passwd root, type your current password when prompted and then enter and confirm the root password.