-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > Cheers > Szemir
sudo passwd This creates a password for root allowing you to login normally. The other thing I usually do is to disable the root account from ssh'ing directly into my boxes, which is easily done in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (PermitRootLogin No). Also, I usually change the /etc/pam.d/su to limit who can actually use su. > > 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 ^__^ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE+zxvwRXgH3rKGfMRAvNBAJ4kCRpdLCvPks9eVpNCh7x41lK02wCfRjEy 0UeQSm0etBhiA0HJXbEbMq8= =WTJ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
