On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:16, Robin Turner wrote:
> On 17/03/06, Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 17/03/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Me I'm not interested in financially supporting just another Distro
> > > > vendor along the lines of RH and Novell.
> > >
> > > I think I am going to testdrive Ubuntu and OpenSuse on a spare disk...
> >
> > Just downloaded Kubuntu, but that was merely a fortuitous coincidence:
> > I wanted to see what a Debian-style distro was like. (K)ubuntu
> > certainly looks like it has a strong community and clear moral
> > principles, though.
>
> Update - it installed easily, though without the graphic pizzaz we're
> used to these days (it reminded me of the good old days of RedHat
> 5.*). I still can't get the hang of this weird attitude to root,
> though. Unless I dozed off, there was no way to set a root password
> during install, but if you try to do something requiring root
> permissions (which is most of what you'll be doing immediately after
> install) it asks for a password. I'll give it some more time, but my
> first impression is that this is one kooky distro.
>
> BTW, you can keep your old /home partition intact when you install,
> but then it won't recognise it, and woe betide you if your trying to
> log on with your old user name!
>
> Sir Robin
Robin,
Kubuntu expects you to use sudo with the user's passwd. I find this
irritating, so all I do is assign a password to root. Open a terminal and
type sudo su, and then simply type "passwd". Once root has a password, you
can log in or su normally.
If you go to the Ubuntu wiki page you'll find a whole elaborate justification
for this thing. Personally, I think it's a bit of a storm in a tea cup.
cheers
Duncan
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