[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Margot]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> Good morning all,
> On an entirely different topic, some months ago I convinced my American 
> friend to switch to Linux and he now has Mandriva 2008.1, same as me, 
> but on a reasonable laptop not a desktop machine.
> 
> He now wants to change his root password but does not know how to do 
> that. Neither do I. Is it possible at all, either with the gui or with 
> command-line entry from a konsole?
> 
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
> 

If your friend prefers the GUI, all he needs to do is open the 
Mandriva Control Center (he'll need the root password for this), go 
to the System section, select Manage users on system and select the 
user he wants to change - in this case, root.

He can change the properties of any system user from there, 
including root.

-- 
Margot