Issues with Ubuntu Login about 2122-s2

[danqiye1]

From the screenshot it seems like sudo apt update ran just fine. You can check your username with command whoami.

Your password and username should be the same as the one from your Windows account.

Let me know if this helped.

[mamayuan]

From the screenshot it seems like sudo apt update ran just fine. You can check your username with command whoami.

Your password and username should be the same as the one from your Windows account.

Let me know if this helped.

Hi, thank you for your help and apologies for my late response. It seems that my problem was not solved. When I entered whoami, it showed me root. And when I attempted to manually login with root and my windows passpord, it failed... What should I do about this?

[danqiye1]

I see. It's weird that you have already privilege escalated to root. Technically you can do everything as the root user, but see if you can update the root password with the following command:

passwd root

[mamayuan]

I see. It's weird that you have already privilege escalated to root. Technically you can do everything as the root user, but see if you can update the root password with the following command:

passwd root

Thank you very much and I have just tried your code. I think I managed to reset the password. That said, do I just continue to login as root for the rest of the module? Or do I need to make other changes?

[danqiye1]

I think for this class is ok since it is your own machine (but highly not recommended). Usually we try not to use root account since it is the highest privileged account in unix and if you accidentally execute a malware with it, the malware will have root privilege to your machine. So if you use it don't give away your root password, make sure the password is strong, and only run scripts and programs that you are absolutely sure what it is doing.

That said, you can also create a lower privileged user using the command:

adduser

If you are using root account, your home directory will be /root instead of /home/<username>/