Ubuntu

do any of you know about the unbuntu version of linix

if just installed it onto my laptop but now its asking for a user name and password, ive not set any so im confused

can anybody help??

Try the default Linux user name and password...



...whatever they are... :P



but if I was a betting man, I'd lay money that *sys* or *admin* or *root* figure in it somewhere.


But I'm not, so I won't.

[SoulKiss]

Installed it on my desktop at work the other month.....

Did it not ask you for one during install???

It doesn't really use the "root" user - it does all of that stuff with the sudo command

Just cruised the web and it seems to agree with me.

If you cant remember just re-install and watch out for it asking for username and password in the latter parts of the install

David

Hello sir.


OK, so, you were definately asked for a password during the installation. Sorry...

What can be happening though is that you only set a root pass, and not a user account and pass. You should set up an account for yourself when you are initing the machine, because Ubuntu does not let you log in as root from the GUI screen.
Sooooo, lets see. Em, ok,

You can hit CTRL-ALT-F4 to get to the command line. Log in as root, and
then you can add a user with the adduser command:

adduser <insert>

It will then walk you through setting the passwords for that user.
Once the user is created, you can get back to the GUI with CTRL-ALT-F7.

Hope that works out!

Originally Posted by philipMac

Hello sir.


OK, so, you were definately asked for a password during the installation. Sorry...

What can be happening though is that you only set a root pass, and not a user account and pass. You should set up an account for yourself when you are initing the machine, because Ubuntu does not let you log in as root from the GUI screen.
Sooooo, lets see. Em, ok,

You can hit CTRL-ALT-F4 to get to the command line. Log in as root, and
then you can add a user with the adduser command:

adduser <insert>

It will then walk you through setting the passwords for that user.
Once the user is created, you can get back to the GUI with CTRL-ALT-F7.

Hope that works out!

your a genious

i remeber setting a root pass up, but never setting a user name or user pass (the installation did go a bit funky though)

all sorted now, much apreciated

I know this has now been solved, but there's a well known 'flaw' in many Linux/BSD based operating systems (mainly those without an SELinux kernel or similar).

At the bootloader, tell it to boot into single user mode. This (in at least pre 2.4 kernels) doesn't require authentication, mainly because it mounts everything ro, and assumes you want to do some physical maintenance.

Then you can unmount / (or at least the partition containing /etc/passwd ) then remount it in rw. Since you're automatically logged into the system as root, you can now go ahead and create the user. Just don't forget to give the user a shell, and setup the home directory. If you don't, you might as well of not bothered with single user mode, as it won't let you login.

Handy 'hole' that assumes you have physical access to the box (it defaults to runlevel 1, so no networking allowed etc). I've purposefully left details missing, as those that already know this method, know all of the above in detail, those that don't, probably never need to dive this deep into what can be a scary Operating System.

If anyone needs to do the above for any reason, give me a shout

Originally Posted by Marshall

your a genious

i remeber setting a root pass up, but never setting a user name or user pass (the installation did go a bit funky though)

all sorted now, much apreciated

Glad you got it sorted mate.
Enjoy Ubuntu

(HAve a look at the forums, they are a sound lot... http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php

Isn't Ubuntu what the missionary chose death by in the cannibals joke?

Originally Posted by philipMac

Glad you got it sorted mate.
Enjoy Ubuntu

(HAve a look at the forums, they are a sound lot... http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php

i installed it on the laptop as XP was running REAL slow and i thought Linux would be a bit faster (its only a 900 celron with sod all ram) but i was wrong if anything this is even slower i might try and put some more ram in it, that should help

More RAM will certainly help. You might want to try go beyond the normal rule for swap. Normally twice your RAM, but tripple doesn't hurt.

Be cautious of going too large on swap, as this can impact performance serverly when you've got 'sod all' RAM.