[Gllug] Advice needed on Ubuntu

Minty mintywalker at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 22:20:22 UTC 2006


On 14 Feb 2006 22:18:34 +0000, Richard Kirkham
> However, I'd like to get user access to my "local" partition but can't
> because root owns it and won't allow me.

Try

  sudo -s

It lets you become root, without changing/setting the root password
(which ubuntu doesn't like) and avoids having to prefix every command
rootl like with "sudo".
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