On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 23:57 +0530, Sharad Birmiwal wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Debasish Ray
> Chawdhuri<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 20:11 +0530, rajan ways wrote:
> >> didnt work..after trying  su - root  even
> >>
> 
> su doesn't work in ubuntu 'cause the root account doesn't have a
> password. You ahve to use sudo to do everything and authenticate as
> yourself instead of root. That's how I understand it.
> 
> 
> SB
> 
> > 

Oh guys, follow the thread before posting. Rajan is not using Ubuntu, he
is using Debian, and he is already doing su, just not su - root.


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