root passwd

Hi all,

Noobie to linux. Accidentally removed my root password. Tried doing

sudo -i

sudo -i

sudo -i

sudo -i

to set it, and it returned

password updated successfully,

password updated successfully,

password updated successfully,

password updated successfully,

but doing

sudo -i

sudo -i

sudo -i

sudo -i

again didn't prompt me for a password. What am I doing wrong here?

Solution

then disable and lock the root account