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Posted: Dec. 26 2003,17:02 QUOTE
What is the root password?
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Posted: Dec. 26 2003,19:37 QUOTE
In a term window type:
sudo su
That will get you to root, then type:
passwd
That will set your root password.
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Posted: Dec. 27 2003,20:09 QUOTE
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?

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Posted: Dec. 27 2003,20:20 QUOTE
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.
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