[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

Mike Rentell michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
Fri Apr 3 10:16:10 UTC 2009


George Prowse wrote:
> Mike Evans wrote:
>> 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. :-)
>>
>>   
> try sudo -s
> 
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Lots of interesting and relevant advice - as expected. This group is so 
instantly helpful.

I shall try it all out and hope the problem is solved.

Regarding VirtualBox. I love it. It means I can try all sorts of distros 
fully extended and make up my mind which way I want to go in future.

Thoroughly recommended.

MikeR



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