On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:57:51 PM yann jautard did opine: > Le 24/12/2011 20:18, gene heskett a écrit : > > On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine: > > > > [overdue chomp] > > > >> > I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is > >> > not to use root account to make all your admin stuff (even if it > >> > may be a better choice than sudo), but use it only the time > >> > needed to change your UID, or other special things like that you > >> > might need to do. > >> > > >> > Gaining acces to real root account by setting a password for it > >> > does not mean you cannot continue using sudo for everything you > >> > are using it now. > > > > But, having done that, I did not realize that you also needed to edit > > the sudoers file to add this new usernum, so once I can closed that > > root account, I was DOA. Hence the re-install. > > ....Strange, I never had to change sudoers after setting a root > password. On *buntu system, to use sudo you just need the user be member > of groups admin and sudo. > > For the other features you gotin pclos like rolling the mouse on the > desktop to change workspace, you can set up gnome to work like this, or > use KDE that is doing this by default. And I have no limitations of > workspace number. I currently have only two on the EMC machine (running > 9.04) and 6 on my laptop running 11.04 > > > Another approach to make your pclos and ubuntu boxes to talk, you can > change your UID to 1000 on the pclos box ? :P > I've considered looking at that, but haven't attempted it.
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