[Wylug-help] Laptop networking woes

[Andrew Beresford]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:46 +0100, Mike Goodman wrote:
> The "live" version of Ubuntu found the network immediately. So I
> loaded
> the "install" version. I found exactly what put me off Mandrake when I
> tried it some time ago. The root user is not set up during the
> installation procedure. When I want to do anything, I need a password
> and whatever password it's looking for, it's not one I gave to it. I
> really don't want to go through another long learning curve before I
> can do some work on the dratted thing. 

Ubuntu doesn't use a root account - it uses sudo instead. If you really
want a root login (I wouldn't recommend it, but if you must!), do the
following as the user account you set up when it installed;

sudo passwd - then enter your USER password (not root) - you can then
enter a root password.

Information on this is available on the Ubuntu site at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

Cheers,

Andrew
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