A little tip, if you have access to sudo, i.e. you are an admin account and know your account password, but don't know the root password anymore you can usually get by with the following command to "become" root.
Nov 25, 2013 openSUSE community - default root password The first thing I would do is log in as a user and see if sudo -s would yield a shell (as root), then set root's password. Then I'd take the first user out of the admin group. Whatever the default password is for any system has the same risk, they are publicly known. It doesn't matter how complex they are. What is the default root password for OSx? | MacRumors Forums Sep 08, 2018 What is Default Kali Linux Username and Password? - Teching
A little tip, if you have access to sudo, i.e. you are an admin account and know your account password, but don't know the root password anymore you can usually get by with the following command to "become" root.
Sep 08, 2018
Used as the default password prompt. SUDO_PS1. If set, PS1 will be set to its value for the program being run. SUDO_UID. Set to the user ID of the user who invoked sudo. SUDO_USER. Set to the login of the user who invoked sudo. USER. Set to the target user (root unless the -u option is specified)
There is no default password for sudo. The password that is being asked, is the same password that you set when you installed Ubuntu - the one you use to login. The sudo command allows trusted users to run programs as another user, by default the root user. If you spend a lot of time on the command line, sudo is one of the commands you will use on a frequent basis. Usually, to grant sudo access to a user you need to add the user to the sudo group defined in the sudoers file.On Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives, members of the group sudo are granted sudo default password? #9. Closed HansLanger opened this issue Jan 15, 2019 · 2 comments Closed sudo default password? #9. HansLanger opened this issue Jan 15, 2019 · 2 comments Labels. good first issue solved & solution provided. Comments. Copy link Quote reply