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

[Anne Wilson]

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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