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On Thursday 19 January 2006 9:19 pm, David Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 21:07, Paul Sutton wrote: > > anyway I booted into ubuntu, to see if I could print from there, and > > could not mount c: where my document was. as I had to be root, I tried > > to su as root then remembered that I did not set up a root account > > during install, ?? What do you mean? You didn't set a root password? All distributions create a root account - all the installer wants from you is a password for root. You get the option to not create a user account in some but I don't see how you'd end up without a root account at all. What happens when you DO type su? > > plus I remember someone saying that by default normal > > users are part of the wheel group, The wheel group is nothing to do with printing. > > anyway how am I meant to get root > > priveledges on a ubuntu box.? > > Type 'sudo -s' to get a root shell. The password is your user password. Only if sudo is configured that way, it might be on Ubuntu but it isn't in Debian by default. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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