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