On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:24:35PM -0000, Denton K. Larson wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I have a question about su in Ubuntu 8.1
> I enter it in a terminal and it asks me for a password.
> How do I enter a password?
Ubuntu is one of those distributions with the increasingly popular
default of no root password. (ISTR that Mac started it, but I could
easily be wrong.)
They consider best practice to be to use sudo, rather than su. sudo is
a program that gives you temporary administrative privilege.
You created a user during installation, say you created the user denton.
So, rather than doing something in Ubuntu with su, you do
sudo <whatever>. It asks for a password. The password you give it is
the password for the denton user.
In Ubuntu, this works for everything.
>
> One other that has me scratching my head. When I shut down with Shutdown
> It is off. But when I come back in the morning it is a the Welcome
> sign, What gives?
Don't scratch your head, it will leave scars. :)
Sometimes, though this is less frequent than it used to be, a kernel
will lack something that enables it to shutdown a particular machine.
Other machines are set to automatically reboot when turned off, this is
usually done in the BIOS.
Those are both just guesses though. I assume you shutdown by clicking a
shutdown button. You can try opening a terminal and typing
sudo shutdown -h now
and see if that works better.
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