{"id":737,"date":"2010-02-17T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:34:17","slug":"root-password-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/17\/root-password-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"root password reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">ubuntu<\/a> or the derviertives (kubuntu\/edubuntu etc) the root password is not set and the way to gain access to the root commands is via the command line<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\nsudo command here\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I personally prefer to have root password set because then I can use the root admin rights on the desktop without having to constantly type in sudo all of the time, so to set the root password to something that I will use you can use this <\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\nsudo set password root\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>this will set the password to something that you can remember and thus any time that you want to have a console open as root just type in<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\nsu\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>and then the password and you are in the root console \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the standard ubuntu or the derviertives (kubuntu\/edubuntu etc) the root password is not set and the way to gain access to the root commands is via the command line sudo command here I personally prefer to have root password set because then I can use the root admin rights on the desktop without having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/17\/root-password-reset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">root password reset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[102,101],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux_install_configure","tag-password","tag-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}