Silly FC14 EC2 AMI question... root password or sudo from ec-user account..?

David HM Spector spector at zeitgeist.com
Wed Feb 9 20:50:27 UTC 2011


Doh!  Figured it out just after I hit send of course..

tnx!

_DHMS
On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> sudo bash
> 
>> Silly question - how does one gain root access on these AMIs?
>> The ec2-user account is in it's own group and not in wheel/root..
>> 
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