not able to change root password (ubuntu server)

[mfaisalwarraich]

Hi everyeone,

I have insalled ubuntu server. Somebody gave me root access. I check its id and it showed me id as 0 and groupid as 0. I also checked it using whoami = root.

But when i tried to change the root password using passwd command its giving me the following response:

The program 'passwd' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install passwd
 

But when i tried this command:

linuxsysp
 

It worked and i can change password using this command. I never saw this command anywhere even on google also there is no man entry found.

Please tell me what exactly going on here.

Thanking you.

[sicarie]

Are you sure the root password has changed? Can you log in as another account and then run /bin/su - and still login to the root account?

This may have checked in the last few months, however Ubuntu has always had the theory that the root user did not use a password - you would have a single privileged account that would run 'sudo' commands - that allow you to run a single command as root.

I'm not familiar with the linuxsysp command, I'm unable to find the package as well, and that searching Debian's repositories.