{"id":198,"date":"2012-10-10T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-10-10T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T09:01:21","slug":"ubuntu-root-password-or-sudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu root password or sudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I have installed Ubuntu server I was asked to enter my user name and password so I can login after the installation is done. But I was not prompted to enter <em>root<\/em> password. By default, root can&#8217;t login to terminal in Ubuntu.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But you can do administrative tasks like install of new software, configuration using the <em>sudo<\/em> command. But if you intend to do administrative work only it&#8217;s not fun to type <em>sudo <\/em>before each command<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One way how to avoid this is to use <em>sudo<\/em> to go into permanent\u00a0<em>root<\/em> mode in terminal (start \/bin\/bash as a root shell so that you can enter a root user command without using sudo command).<\/p>\n<pre>sudo -i<\/pre>\n<p>But if you really want to be able to login as user, you need to create it&#8217;s initial password by login into terminal as yourself (using the credentials entered during insatallation) and typing<\/p>\n<pre>sudo passwd<\/pre>\n<p>You will be prompted for your current password and subsequently for the new root password (and once more for retyping it).<\/p>\n<p>After that is done you can login to terminal using root account and the just created password<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I have installed Ubuntu server I was asked to enter my user name and password so I can login after the installation is done. But I was not prompted to enter root password. By default, root can&#8217;t login to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nYbe-3c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oprsteny.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}