On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:47, Rob wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 11:33, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Had he been able to login as root by default, he would simply have done > > so, and probably carried on with this incorrect and dangerous practice. > > Since he couldn't, he asked for information on how he could, and the > > channel was able to instruct him in the proper way to do the task he > > You mean "the Unixly Correct way". The proper way would have been to run > Mandrake control center from within KDE, and type the root password when > prompted. ;) (My users will never see a shell if I can help it...)
I'm not sure he was trying to install something via Mandrake packages, from how he phrased it... -- adamw
