Root password

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Root password
started by: Rich3800

Posted by Rich3800 on Dec. 26 2003,17:02

What is the root password?

Posted by John on Dec. 26 2003,19:37

In a term window type:
sudo su
That will get you to root, then type:
passwd
That will set your root password.

Posted by libretto on Dec. 27 2003,20:09

Is there a way of disabling the 'sudo su' command once you have set the root password, otherwise anyone could come along and access you machine?

Posted by John on Dec. 27 2003,20:20

Sure, you can remove sudo.
'apt-get remove sudo' should be okay, but you will lose some functionality in the menu. I believe you can replace the sudo command with 'su-to-root' in the menu and get some of the same functionality, but you will have to type the root password each time.