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If you can get in without a password just run 'passwd' as root to
change it.  If you can't get in I believe you can boot up the machine
in single-user mode and change it from there.

Jeff wrote:
> 
> I did not set up a root password on setup... how do I set one up?
> 
> Jeffrey
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