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If I have to do a lot in "privileged mode" rather than type sudo before
each command I tend to do
sudo su -
That puts me into permanent root mode along with root's environment variables.
Then when I'm done Control-D puts me back to lowbie mode
Less chance of making a "male chicken up" than using root mode all the time
but at least I don't have to keep typing sudo (which I invariably forgot
to do)
Steph
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Steven Coté <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I really don't know. I have actually just done a reinstall anyway and
during the process I wasn't prompted for a root password or superuser name.
When I
was asked for a password for root I supplied the normal user password
and this worked, I've now got a system with the same username for both root
and
ordinary use and trhe same password....strange.
>> Yeah, that threw me the first time I tried Ubuntu too. What's actually
happening is that the root password is being set to something random that
no one has access to. That way, nobody gets to login as root. It's just
their way of enforcing the good habit of never ever logging in as root.
When gui apps prompt for a password, it's actually asking for your password,
sort of a gui sudo (it might actually be using sudo to do this, I'm not
too sure about that though).
The default account you create is created with the Administrator profile, which
means it has all the normal permissions of a regular user and it's been
added to the admin user group which, in turn, has an entry in the sudoers
file. This automatically gives you permission to run any command with elevated
privileges via the sudo command.
...Why don't all distros keep to a standard root login. Now I've got sudo,
super user, root, admin and probably more as options for doing system configuration.
I liked it when it was just 'root'.....Oh well. THanks for your contributions.
CXheers, Jon Davey.
If you don't like that and still want to be able to login as root, then
all you have to do is set the root password, and you'll be able to do so.
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