A little problem

[neuro]

Greetings, my first try with Linux Mint and my first post here..
Anyone knows "root" default password for Linux Mint? I've been installed it on VMWare and I need root pass to install VMWare tools...

Thx a lot!

[Wickermann]

Did you try with leaving the Password for "root" just free ?
Or..create a new passowrd for root. This can be done under System->Administration--> User and groups.

[900i]

The root account is disabled by default in this distro, like Ubuntu. The password is the one you setup when you made your user account.

[sanford42]

instead of giving a user account root priveleges through "su", you just type:

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sudo *command*

and it will prompt you for your password.

it took me a while to get used to it, but now that i have, i like it better than su.

[clem]

Well.. there is a root account, and it's not disabled. The password for it is simply unknown.. (I can't remember if it's random, or simply some hardcoded gibberish stuff defined in the casper-bottom scripts).. but anyway.

Your default account can run anything as root by typing "sudo" in front of the command, so you can perfectly give root a new password... all you have to do is :

sudo passwd root

Et voila.

[Quicksilver 689]

I could be mistaken here, but I could have sworn that at some point I was able to do "sudo -s", which kept me at the root prompt afterwards, thereby effectively switching me to root.

Anyone able to confirm/deny this?

[whistlerspa]

I use sudo su - that works after you put in your password