[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu

[Peter Apps]

--Hi,

I think youll find KDE4 is still under development and a lot of features
are still missing. KDE3 is the real stable version.

Add sudo to commands like 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo sshfs.........' give
you root privileges and I use sudo -i to make me root user.

Kubuntu does have a change user gui but it is loaded with one of the
extras packages.

Regards, Peter.



On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 14:07 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> After many years using Mandrake/Mandriva I am now disappointed to find 
> that the 2008 version (both 32-bit and 64-bit) is unstable on my 
> reasonably well-spec'd AMD64 system. Ever more frequent freezing has 
> caused me to look elsewhere for a Linux system.
> 
> I'm sold on KDE so I downloaded a CD for kubuntu (64-bit) yesterday and 
> installed it today, overwriting / but keeping /home.
> 
> All seemed to go OK and it has been running for hours now and is rock 
> stable - so that's a relief.
> 
> But the ubuntu way of getting root privileges has baffled me. I know 
> there is a sudo command but I can't seem to figure it out.
> 
> I've installed virtualbox and that works but of course I must install 
> user mick into group vbox. How do I do that? There does not appear to be 
> any graphicy facility available.
> 
> Oh did I say that it is KDE 4.0? Now there's a steep learning curve.
> 
> I've found System Settings/Advanced/ Login Manager but its Users tab is 
> completely greyed out. The KDE 4.0 help file says that this page should 
> display a Administrator Mode button but it don't.
> 
> All I want to do is make a user/group change with a gui because I am too 
> dim to do it with a console.
> 
> Can someone please advise me, in words that a non-specialist would 
> understand, what I'm doing wrong. It seemed so easy on Mandriva - pity 
> it has become so unstable.
> 
> All kind offerings gratefully received.
> 
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
> 
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