How to change the root password in Ubuntu To change the root password in Ubuntu, you'll need to enable the root account first. Luckily, changing the root password actually enables it, so that's ...

If you deploy Docker containers based on an official imagine, you might want to set a root password for heightened security.

While new Alpine Linux images have been released on Docker Hub, existing systems should be modified to either disable the root account or, at least, set a custom password.

Looks like the actual password is one-way DES encrypted and therefore non-trivial to crack.<br><br>I guess all the really good stuff is gone.

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...