On Sunday 03 September 2006 07:15, bogi wrote: > 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.
You can su to root. "sudo su" will allow you to switch to root and then run all your commands as root without entering sudo each time. Neil -- Neil Bower CLUG - http://clug.ca Registered Linux User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org ) _______________________________________________ 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
