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My boss wants a blank password on the desktop running the Ubuntu 15.04. The system logs me into the account directly but whenever I try to sudo command anything and it asks for the password, leaving the space blank doesn't work. I have been researching this for about an hour and I can't come up with any results that really help. I know I can't log in the root account directly, but I also can't do anything as long as the blank password isn't working. I use Kali pretty regularly but I'm not familiar with Ubuntu as much. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: The employee who set up the machine set a normal password then "deleted the credentials so it would log in automatically". We've resolved to just reinstall and cut out losses, not waste anymore time on this.

AggravatedIT
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In Ubuntu setup, you cannt set a blank password. That's how UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems work to protect some of the administrators functionnality that can affect the system. So there is a password and you have to find the one that set it up.

Ahmed Abdelkafi
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