Re: ubuntu

["David Hummel-2" <user=95@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 10/28/07, Richard Royston <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Issuing the su command will work providing an account has actually been set 
> up for root; su doesn't work if there isn't an account. This (not 
> automatically setting up a root account) seems to be a feature (of at least 
> some distributions) of ubuntu. 

There seems to be some confusion about the root account in Ubuntu. 
The root account is indeed present, but just disabled by default (by 
design there is always a root account in *nix).  If you really want a 
root login shell/console and don't want to be bothered with typing 
sudo all the time, just enable the root account by setting a password: 

  $ sudo passwd root 

Alternatively, just login as yourself and su when you need to do some 
stuff as root: 

  $ sudo su - 

-David 

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