On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:32 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote: > >-Tried to change root password with 'sudo root' - it asked me for a > password > >-Ended up going into runlevel 1 somehow to change the root password > > > This is the tricky part, for me also. But as the install user has > auth/password to activate admin tasks, I ignore it mostly (will worry > about security sureties later in the learning curve.) Viz Nick's > point > this morning - it is a non-standard approach to root, & I don't much > like it either. But somehow I managed to reset the root password > (from > runlevel5), and only need it occasionally in a terminal window. - > Later. > Never have I needed to type "sudo" at all - there is a different > logic > to root here (off to read Glynn's ref.) > > ??? - maybe next time try using "root" as the setup account name at > installtime?
don't be silly the system does not want two accounts called root, and anyway, how would merely giving someone the name "root" give someone root privileges? Plenty of hispanics call their sons "Jesus" but it doesn't make them the son of god (or krishna, big grin) if you really want to get into this foolishness instead of using sudo, as the developers intended you to do, why not simply run the passwd command on the root account? I think "sudo passwd root" will do it, but why would you want to when sudo allows you full root privileges? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
