Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Debian and other debian-based distros like Ubuntu have, by default, has the root account disabled as a security measure.(thanks to Subbu and PICCORO for the clarification) To re-enable the root account, just open the command prompt, and type sudo passwd root You'll get the following set of messages: sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ sudo passwd root Enter new UNIX ...

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