GF has just spent and hour trying to remember the root password for his Linux system (Xubuntu). Thinking he'd forgotten it, he tried every password he might have used with the su command.
he's now decided that as there wasn't too much (anything) on that machine that isn't copied on this one, it's easier to re-install. So the CD was retrieved and spun up, the install process started, the disk partitioned and off it went.
He then returned to this machine and started searching Google... low and behold Xubuntu doesn't provide a root user. He hadn't forgotten the password. There wasn't one. That's not how you do it with Xubuntu.
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