[Wolves] finding my roots

[baza]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:42 +0100, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> > When I amend some of the settings I get asked for an admin-user
> > password, which works fine with my login password - is this the same
> > as root in Ubuntu? Am I already at the right level? Surely if I was
> > logged in as root from the get-go I wouldn't have to keep re-typing a
> > password?
> 
> Ubuntu is set up to not use a root account. Instead, your normal user
> has permission to do "root" things, but it requires you to enter your
> password first. This is done for security reasons, and it's advisable
> to maintain it that way. You can run a "root level" command from the
> command line as your normal user by using "sudo <command>". I'd advise
> you to *not* use the suggestions about setting a password for the root
> account with "sudo passwd root" as suggested above, but it's up to
> you.
> 
> Aq.

I agree with Aq, I just gave the info on how to set a root user password
for if you -really- have to have one.

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