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During installation for the first time I was not ask for a root password is there a default password? Or is there some way to establish that password?

Ray Jones
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At time of installation it asked to create one user and that user is in sudo group. so whenever you run any command with sudo it will ask that user password not root. so no need of root password , but if you want to set password then you can set password using command:

 sudo passwd

or 

sudo passwd root
pl_rock
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Standard Ubuntu since at least 14.04 has not used the root account in favor of doing everything with sudo. Unless you've used older versions or other distros where root account is the standard way of doing privileged tasks, it's probably better to continue the Ubuntu way: if you find a command that needs root privilege, use sudo with your user password (assuming you have a user account that's in the sudoers list).

Zeiss Ikon
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