Re: ubuntu

["Richard Royston-5" <user=1534@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kramer" <[hidden email]> 
To: <[hidden email]> 
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:08 AM 
Subject: Re: ubuntu 


> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:37:20 -0400 (EDT) 
> > Mike Gorse <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > 
> >> I don't know, and I found it odd, too, but it is easy to enable the 
root 
> >> account if you want to (ie, sudo passwd, or sudo sh to get a root 
shell). 
> >> You just have to remember to type in your own password if you run sudo, 
> >> rather than the root password, unless you modify the sudo 
configuration. 
> > 
> > 
> > I think the issue here is to make the desktop system easier to use from 
> > a user standpoint, but it is also a departure from what we 
> > professionals are used to. 
> 
> Oh, I absolutely agree "it's a feature" for some, but I don't want that 
> feature. If I can get a root shell by other means, especially if I can 
> set up a Konsole session for it, then I can live with that. 
> 
> It's just that moving from Fedora to *buntu is a big deal.  The 
> packaging is all different.  I haven't worked on a BSD derivative since 
> early Slackware. 
> 
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