On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > As you all know, I'm a Slacker and don't know the fine points of > administering a ubuntu system. > > Xubuntu-11.10 is now installed on the laptop, but I was not able to set > the time zone (no instructions on how to do so and I blew it), and I missed > the host name box so it has the computer model as a host name.
nano /etc/hostname > I need to > change those so the time is correct and so it works on the LAN. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime > Also, it's been long enough that I don't remember how to create a root > user and password; in Slackware that's done during installation. Sudo-ing to > root to create root seems not likely to me. root is created by default, with no password login capability. > Please help a non-ubuntu, non-professional SysAdmin correct the time, host > name (/etc/hosts was changed but apparently didn't stick), and add user > root. If you sudo su You can take a look at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, the "!" in shadow is the "don't allow this account to login" feature. HTH, -Ronabop _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
