Well, in Ubuntu, the root account has no password, and you cant login as root or su to root and be root. Some functions that require root will have to be done with sudo and sudo needs a password. It is a more elaborate affair specially if you only want to edit a config file or something. So the (system user) , the one you define during installation gets to do most of the administrative tasks, with the help of a password , alias sudo. Cheers Szemir
On September 2, 2006 13:15, Gustin Johnson wrote: > bogi wrote: > > Since i have just folded a kubuntu 6.06.1 neatly into an ibm eserver 330 > > blade. Ubuntu looks very intresting, specially after you activate > > universe, you end up with 18353 packages being available. > > > > Cheers > > Szemir > > > > Ps.: Now if they only fix this root thing anomaly :-) > > What root thing anomaly? > > > On September 2, 2006 12:20, Mitchell Brown wrote: > >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot2 > >>> Edgy Eft, Knot 2 is out! You can read more about it here. > >>> > >>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-2/ > >>> ^^ Kubuntu ^^ > >> > >> But of course, I have my PCLinuxOS, so I won't even use it ^__^ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
