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