Where the h%^&^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part II

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 22:09:48 UTC 2008


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





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