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How to eliminate the login password requirement. My administrator had left the job and I am unable to login as Administrator.

galoget
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Normally, Ubuntu does not have a login for the user 'root'.

Instead you use sudo command line to run the command command line, and you use your own user ID's password to escalate the permissions and run with root permissions via sudo.

Example (to modify the file /etc/fstab),

sudo nano /etc/fstab

So if you have the password for the previous administrator's user ID, fine. Otherwise you may need to reset that password,

How do I reset a lost administrative password?

sudodus
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  • In addition to what you said, you can also do sudo bash or sudo -s and that would give you a root shell :) – marko Mar 11 '18 at 09:38
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    Yes, @marko, but it will defeat the purpose of sudo, to avoid running commands as root by mistake and create problems. Anyway, in some special cases it is an advantage to run with a root shell via sudo -s or sudo -i. And we should remember to use sudo -H gui-program to run GUI application programs to avoid problems for the regular user ID with configuration files. – sudodus Mar 11 '18 at 09:43