On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Justin Dugger wrote:
Ive gone through two upgrades of Ubuntu thus far, with minimal troubles. Yes, there was a root password leak that wasn't caught until lately.
Well, it's not actually the root password, because ubuntu doesn't let you set a root password. It's the installer password, the installer user can sudo to do root things. Maybe this is a minor point.
But, if you wish to set a root password, here's how: $sudo vi /etc/shadow
Now remove the '*' from the top (root) line;
root:*:13234:99999:7::: ^ remove this
Save the file and IMMEDIATELY run
$ passwd root
This will let you set a root password.
I recently installed the AMD64 Ubuntu on an HP Turion 64 laptop. But I also set apt/sources to get sid and merillat packages, it was a was a little squirrelly with its dependencies, and after compiling an ATI driver for the 200M Radeon, hey, it works pretty well.
Much easier than any raw Debian laptop install I've ever done, once I figured out the nolapic, noapic, and vga=771 initial command line install arguments.
Regards,
-Don