<div dir="ltr">The password for the root user is ubuntu (as shown on the video), you can log on it from GDM by choosing Other.<div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Barry Kauler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkauler@gmail.com">bkauler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I fixed it by editing /etc/shadow and plonking in my password from my<br>
own running system, into the password field.<br>
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Note, I found that "Ubuntu system administrator" is not root. It is a<br>
user named "ubuntu" -- who does not have all privileges as root.<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>