On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:34, Steven Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sudo rocks, Ubuntu rocks! Root does exist, if you > want the traditional method of using root, just > activate > root by doing > > sudo passwd root > > when you create a password then you can log in as > root, if you then disable sudo, you are back to the > traditional set up! I quite like the way Ubuntu has > used sudo, but if you dont like it, it takes seconds > to change!
I think that's what I did on my system. I was unaware that Ubuntu is reliant upon sudo instead of su, and I thought that my root password was set to be the same as my user password. To change it, I used 'sudo passwd root', which of course removed the sudo functionality and reverted my system to a more traditional su setup. Is the sudo-type setup employed by Ubuntu the same as that used in Mac OS X? Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} FYI, XP doesn't stand for "eXPerience". It's just an emoticon.
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