Comments on: Enable and Disable Ubuntu Root Password

By: JeffKaye

JeffKaye — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:53:30 +0000

I set an admin password on my account. Then I decided to run it as “no password required”

Now I can’t unlock the admin acct at all. It asks for a password that isn’t there. I’m new to Ubuntu so please go step by step.

Thanks

By: Putsoa

Putsoa — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:29:38 +0000

Open application terminal and just type passwd, then you will be required to type in your new unix password, it should be able to enable your password. Root is an administrative function so you should be having administrative rights to execute root commands.

By: baba10

baba10 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:39:33 +0000

why all of u want to mess up with root things??dough,…If u dont really have an emrgency times,i aware you that going around with root things made u all being the root human of Nux..So low-face,eye-glasses,eat popcorn everyday,just married with rectangle blue shape bright and drink the electrical source.Live but not life,..

By: yogeshwaran

yogeshwaran — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:59:51 +0000

i am using the red hat 6 ,i want to know the root password with out permission of administrative pls give the commands

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:23:33 +0000

this is a nice tip….its better to use the sudo -i command than to enable the root account

By: Mitesh Patel

Mitesh Patel — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:18:45 +0000

Thanks

By: AKshay

AKshay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:56:49 +0000

Hello ,
i have ubuntu 11.04 . i am not able to see password window(field). maybe its hide .. how i able to login ?

By: MMistry

MMistry — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:11:28 +0000

We have a server which has 4 users and they all have their own login and pass word.but root login and password are known to all users so by opening root login people they are opening some important documents which they need not to
Please guide me what to do with my own login and password such that even from root also the documents can not be opened!!!

By: Mumbi

Mumbi — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:14:13 +0000

I got a pre-installed ubuntu (meenee) laptop from amazon this year. Its asking for a password and authentication key which I dont have and never enable. What do I do? There are programs that need to be activated but I can not because of the keys being asked for.
by the way, I am using ubuntu linux for the first time!
thanx!
Mumbi

By: Kyle Maes

Kyle Maes — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:17:39 +0000

Thankyou for actually being smart now i can install gstreamer0.10-XXXXXX it didnt let me before

By: gowtham

gowtham — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:51:55 +0000

how to recovery the root password in ubuntu10.04

By: Mardur

Mardur — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:03:09 +0000

Ridwan, are you allowed to call any command with sudo? The file /etc/sudoers should contain something like “%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL” and you should be member of the group wheel. Try “sudo bash” or “sudo -i” instead of invoking su. Or directly use “sudo passwd root” to set a root password.

If you want to set a new root password without knowing the old or having access via sudo, you can do the following in the GRUB bootloader:
Select your linux entry in GRUB and add “1″ in the list of optional kernel parameters. This will load the single user mode, which is a root console. Then use “passwd” to set a new password (you don’t need to know the old one).

If the console asks you for the root password to login, then try another kernel parameter “init=/bin/sh”. This should prevent a regular login prompt and push you directly to the command line. Then call
mount -a
passwd

reboot

This worked for me on Ubuntu as well as SLES.

If all fails, you can always boot your system from a Live disk, become root there to mount and chroot to your harddisk. The command “passwd” as root will then set a new root password on your harddisk.

Ubuntu puts the first created user automatically into the wheel group and configures sudo accordingly. You should never need to login as root.

By: Ridwan

Ridwan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:03:22 +0000

Hi All.
I have a problem with my “root” password, i lost it..
when i use sudo to change it,

operator@plik-server:~$ sudo su

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for operator:
Sorry, user operator is not allowed to execute ‘/bin/su’ as root on plik-server.

each time i use “sudo” then it always says “Sorry, user operator is not allowed to execute ‘/bin/su’ as root on plik-server”

i tried use kon-boot and NT Offline Password to reset password “root” but it didn’t work..
Help me,
Thanks

By: john

john — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:47:31 +0000

ubuntu is asking for a password and an authentification code and I never set one up upon installing it--what can I do

By: socialflea

socialflea — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:10:18 +0000

Ryan,

Is it any more annoying then in windows you are prompted even when you don’t have a password set?

By: GTGrover

GTGrover — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:43:29 +0000

I like the sudo option, even with automatic login. People who have access to my machine can not perform admin operations.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:35:20 +0000

What I want to do in ubuntu is get rid of that silly authentication window and enable my root user. I’ve enabled the root user part… how do I get rid of the authentication window. It pops up just about everytime I try to configure something. What’s the point? If I’m a hacker and on my system.. I’ve already got away around my password. Asking for it again serves no purpose. All it is is a hassle to a user trying to do something legitimately. I mean.. i’m fine with the command prompt. It’s my preferred way if I’m remote, but one of the reasons for going to gnome is to use the desktop gui to handle some of these things. With that authentication window poping up every 5 seconds, it ends up being faster using the command prompt. If that’s the case.. what’s the point of having the GUI at all? We might as well go back to the late 80′s and grow mullets.

Sorry… ubuntu is annoying.

By: odko

odko — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:55:41 +0000

hi all. i’m now using ubuntu 9.0. i was lost root password. And i need to work in root. so how to renew root password? please

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:29:43 +0000

If you need to change any passwords, just boot into grub and choose “Drop to root command line” and type “passwd insertusernamehere”

By: andy2010

andy2010 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:14:57 +0000

new user to ubunto, i appreciate the root folder is designed to be hard to access, when i try some the above console tricks , im not able to type new password for root, (just like J3sus who left comment above)

Im having problems with my Nvidia graphics drivers , not happy with the resolutions available to me and to try a “possible newer driver for card” i need access to the root folder.
because i have a NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256-53.run file which apparently needs to be placed into a folder located in the root folder so that the system can fire up the driver. something on them lines! im complete novice and new here. appreciate some help. be nice to have good highish resolution available. hellishandy