From: "Gregg N" 

In Ubuntu, you are supposed to use sudo to do the things you would normally
log in as root to do.

To be able to log in as root, you have to first assign it a password. To do
that, use the command

    sudo passwd root

Enter your password first (as with all sudo commands), and then when
prompted enter the password you wish to assign to root. Then you can log in
as root using su.

Gregg

Thees Peereboom wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Funny you ask just today. I installed Ubuntu today (in a VMware
> machine) and am quite impressed with version 6.06. Flawless
> installation (except that I yet have to find out how to get to the
> root password), looks very good, lots of software, etc.

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