On Tuesday 19 August 2008 23:09:48 Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 20:02 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > you can get a root password on Kubuntu as well if you hate sudo :) > > > > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/enable-and-disable-ubuntu-root-password.html > > > > $ sudo passwd root > > > > One of my students told me that after I told him that I hated sudo :), he > > told me you can run like you in your beloved Fedora. It does not have to > > be sudo ????? > > I already got that done. I mean having a real root session at login. > During my multiuser days, 'users' could not install programs, configure > email, etc. 'root' did that by design and that happens to be what I'm > used to, security-wise. A 'user' as 'almost root' is somewhat > disconcerting. Ric On the EeePC (xandros, deb based) I did set up root, but still some things can only be done with sudo :-( Maybe it is fixable, but I find it very annoying. Anne
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