All you need to do is run 'visudo' if you want to take your sudo privileges away.
The reason for removing root was likely not ease of use, but to prevent folks from running that way all the time. Like I said under separate cover, there really is no good reason as you can run any command as root by placing 'sudo' before the command. Kern Sibbald wrote: >On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:45, Alan Brown wrote: > > >>On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >> >>>Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned kubuntu is a total disaster. I >>>downloaded their latest version 5.10 (if I remember right), burned a CD, >>>did the installation, and ended up with a running system with no root >>>password -- that is a totally useless system for doing any kind of system >>>administration or maintenance. >>> >>> >>sudo bash >> >>Ugly, but it works. >> >> > >Yes, really ugly, but it does work. Thanks. Now at least I have been able to >give my root account a password. Unfortunately, also, what I though was my >personal account, apparently has a lot more power than any sane user should >want. > >It is a bit of a pity that they assume the users to be so stupid that they >cannot understand what a "root" account is. I can admit that the word "root" >is probably unfamiliar. However, if they don't like "root" or couldn't >explain it, they could have created an "Administrator" account, with uid=0 >guid=0 and that would be much more simple and transparent than sprinkling my >userid in a whole pile of groups. They then could have created my account as >a standard user, which would have been much more consistent with what most >other systems including Windows do, and probably a lot more secure too. > >Oh well, at least I now have a Debian-like system with recent software. >Thanks again. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
