How to be root in Ubuntu: As user, open shell and do >> sudo passwd root. Enter sudo password and it will walk you through creating root password. This is how it worked up to 13.04 in my experience...I'm assuming Ubuntu has kept permissions the same in Trusty. In Ubuntu the root account exists, but by default root has no password until you create one and thereby activate the root account. To make kdm/tdm display root accout for login, you probably will have to edit /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc to say either #AllowRootLogin=false (comment the line out) or AllowRootLogin=true. In my kdmrc this is line number 252. On 9/4/14, Thierry de Coulon <tdecoulon(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday 04 September 2014 21.34:50 Chris Graham wrote: (...) On Friday 05 September 2014 01.07:49 Dan Youngquist wrote: (...) Thanks to both,,, but that was not what I was looking for. What I was looking for was to make a *buntu work like a "normal" Debian and ask for the *root* password instead of the *user* password. Funnily, I could not find an answer to this directly. I found people letting their user use sudo without password (!), or answers about setting the root password and the root account. I knew about sudo passwd root and how to be able to log as root (which I very seldom use). After much reading and using this Deepin install to test and try, I think I've found: - create the root password as Chris wrote - Follow Dan's suggestion if you want - add this to sudoers: "Defaults rootpw" Funny enough, once you've found that and search for "Default rootpw" you find a lot of interresting stuff, includind requiring the user to use his wn password for specific commands... So it was probably me not searching the right way :) Linux is real fun (and TDE rules) :)) Have a great day! Thierry