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I tried installing ubnto 14 on a virtual box. During the install, I was asked for a customer username and password. But am unable to login as root ( using 'su' command ). AM getting an incorrect password error

Kindly help me in getting the right password for root...

Hariharan K
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Ubuntu does not set the password for root on installation. Instead, run

sudo -i

and enter the password of the user which is logged in. You are now root. If you want to use su command to become root type

passwd root

after you have gained root privileges with "sudo -i". After the root password is set you should be able to run "su".

nobody
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