sudo passwd for bash terminal

Question

I am total newbie so excuse the lack of knowledge, but I recently created an Microsoft Azure account so it comes equipped with a bash terminal. I wanted to make sure it is up-to-date so I tried running "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" command which comes back with "We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

For security reasons, the password you type will not be visible.

[sudo] password for jennifer: "

Can anyone tell me what password I would use there, because I do not remember setting up a sudo account, but I also suffer from short term memory sooooo, it could be me, if so, how do I retrieve said password. Thank you for your guys help in advance:)

Answer 1

Normally sudo asks for your own account's password (on the system that you're connected to). That is, you're connected to a Linux system where your account 'jennifer' would have had its password set somehow.

I recently created an Microsoft Azure account so it comes equipped with a bash terminal.

That sounds like you're accessing "Azure Cloud Shell". That's running on a temporary server and deliberately does not grant you root access through 'sudo', even if you were able to provide the password. (The account doesn't actually have any password set, if I remember correctly.)

And because it's a temporary server that gets destroyed as soon as you close Cloud Shell (part of why it's free) it doesn't really make practical sense to apt upgrade it anyway. Azure's Cloud Shell is practically only meant for brief tasks (mostly managing Azure services through the az tool); for anything else, you'll need to create a whole VM on the Azure platform.