[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Mike Rentell]

Margot wrote:
> 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.
> 


Hah! Only if you click on Options and then uncheck Filter System Users. 
It defaults to FSU being checked so you can't see the other users. I'll 
pass on the advice. Thanks

MikeR