[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

[Mike Evans]

Never tried any of this VM stuff.  As a user of Fedora I have a root 
password and quite like it.  So if I want to do a load of stuff as root 
on my laptop (ubuntu) I use 'sudo bash' which gets me into a shell as 
root after prompting for password - and away I go. :-)

Mike

Mike Rentell wrote:
> A cry for help (again!). I'm fiddling with Kubuntu under VBox and it all 
> seems to work but I can get no web pages with java bits to work so I 
> have downloaded:
> 
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin
> 
> from a website but I can't get it to run and install. I've tried sudo 
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin but it comes back immediately and says that it 
> isn't authorised. It doesn't ask for my password which is what I thought 
> was supposed to happen with this sudo thingy.
> 
> I do wish Ubuntu would allow root passwords. Can anyone enlighten me? 
> I'm obviously doing something stupid.
> 
> MikeR
> 
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