On Sunday 03 September 2006 09:05, Neil Bower wrote: > 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
Or better yet ... sudo -i I was turned onto that gem a little while ago by a wise friend. Other comments : 1. You can allow as many people sudo access as you see fit to shared administration boxes. It is not restricted to the installation user you created ... anyone can be in the sudoers file. 2. Without a root account, you never have to worry about shared passwords, nor change the root password when someone disappears into the night. 3. For someone like me watching several machines ... it's just one less thing to remember. I don't need to remember 15 different root passwords. I just need to remember my passwords. $0.02 Andy _______________________________________________ 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
