[plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob [OT]

[Shannon Carver]

Off topic, but have you heard about the bug in Breezy (5.10) where
passwords are stored in plain text?  I'll have to dig up the article for
you, I was reading it on Monday.

I'm wondering if tinkering with your display settings is as easy as
editing /etc/X11/XOrg.conf (or /etc/X11/XF86.Config, if you're using
Xfree86 as opposed to XOrg, I assume late versions of Ubuntu would all
be Xorg though).

And your root password question, from the ubuntu guide ->

>>>>>What's the root password after I install? How do I use the root
account?

The root account is disabled when you first install Ubuntu. The first
user created during the installation has administrative rights on the
system, and can run programs as root with sudo, using only their normal
user password. For example: sudo apt-get update. Additional information
and some rationale about sudo can be found in the wiki here. sudo Super
User Do has been around since 1981.

Regards

Shannon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf
> Of Chris Griffin
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 2:06 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob
> 
> Greetings folks,
> 
> I have just decided to try out Ubuntu again and have installed 5.10 in
> a VMware session.
> Having got it working I decided to change the screen resolution and
> while doing so changed the refresh rate from 56 to 60. This all went
> well (including when it did the test) until I restarted the system.
> Now after logging on I get a screen full of subbish. I can log in with
> safe mode text console and am looking for where to change the settings
> back to default. Any hints, BTW, what is the default root PW?
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Griffin
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