[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[Steven Susbauer]

Or enable the root account.

If you install from the alternate cd you can even set a root password  
at install, as well as encrypting your home directory.

On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:04 PM, DYNATRON tech wrote:

>
> you can always sudo.
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>
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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
>
>> Lol
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Aric Aasgaard" <aric at omahax.com>
>>
>> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:59:06
>> To: <dthacker9 at cox.net>; 'Omaha Linux User Group'<olug at olug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu, cant su root
>>
>>
>> Super user switching in SCO should have an e at the end of su.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On  
>> Behalf Of
>> Dave
>> Thacker
>> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:49 AM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu, cant su root
>>
>> On Friday 24 July 2009 15:03:19 Charles.Bird wrote:
>>> If i had unstable hormones, like some people that i know in my  
>>> life, i
>>> would be curled up crying about how i lost my linux skills to a  
>>> windows
>>> shop right now.
>>
>> Could be worse.  You could be curled up crying about how you lost  
>> your
>> linux
>>
>> skills to SCO Unix shop.........   Please excuse me, I have another  
>> 90 or
>> so
>>
>> kernels to relink.....
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Yes, it was
>>>>
>>>> I remember being infuriated with it in Ubuntu 6.06.
>>>>
>>>> Charles.Bird wrote:
>>>>> I wonder why that is?
>>>>> it didnt used to be like that did it, on older versions on Ubuntu?
>>>>
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>>>> phil at brutsche.us
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