ik632 wrote: > I agree with all of you guys, the whole sudo thing is why I don't use > Ubuntu.
Since you can make it work, there is no reason to avoid Ubuntu. I have no clue why they have the 'sudo' culture. And I hate the way it asks for a password with wording that doesn't make it clear whether they want the 'root' password or the normal user's password > I tried Mint not too long ago and during the install it asks > you if you want to use the Ubuntu way or the standard way. I'm sure > there's a way in Ubuntu to switch it back, but I never gave it much > energy to figure out. I don't know if you can 'switch' but you can make ubuntu work like all the rest of the world, fairly easily. put this line in your .bashrc or .bash_profile alias su='sudo su' then just use 'su' the way you want, and exit to return to peon mode. To remove the constant prompt for password to folks in the admin group, add this to the bottom of /etc/sudoers # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
