Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-09-12, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is >> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/ >> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that >> tho. There has to be a way. > $ sudo bash - > > It's been a while since I tried it, but you used to be able to set a > password for root. IIRC, it was as simple as > > $ sudo passwd root > >
This last one seemed the simplest and easiest. I might add, it also worked. Now I don't have to sudo every time I want to take a breath or something. Most any of them would have helped but now I can just login as root. I have to be a user at first over ssh tho, if I recall correctly. That's OK tho. It will still save me a lot of typing and I don't have to guess what needs it and what doesn't. I got me a little nap so I'm banging at it again. Going to see what still works after a reboot. If some services didn't start, got to figure that out too. Hopefully they will. I can ssh in so far. lol Dig around and see what is the same as rc-status. Surely they have something. Off to duckduckgo I go. Oh, I found the forums. Yikes. O_O If I get this all set up. I'll move the drives over and redo my backups, again. Thanks to all. Yay!! Dale :-) :-)
