Hi, On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:03:23AM -0500, dwain wrote: > hello all. i just installed debian tonight next to win xp. they seem to > play well together. i was trying to setup the bug report and found that i > can't sudo into root. i can get into the synaptic package manager with the > root password and this has me a bit confused why i can't login as root in > the terminal with sudo. is there another command that i can try to do this?
Ubuntu sets up sudo while setting no password for root in its default as I observe. You sounds like one from Ubuntu or some other Debian derivatives. > also i would like to update my system. would i: apt-get update and then: > apt-get install to do this? > > any help would be appreciated, but please keep your responses simple as i am > trying to learn a new os and am in the process of migrating away from > windows. I do not think you get bigger picture without reading documentation given in the system. For started, you amy wish to read documentation in http://www.debian.org http://www.debian.org/doc "Debian Reference" web pages on Debian need update soonish. For now please look at: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4a/html/index.en.html * Debian is not Ubuntu. So you need to set up sudo by yourself. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4a/html/ch01.en.html#_sudo_configuration (If you are the only one, no security issue.) * There are multiple ways to get root. (Including one without password) http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4a/html/ch04.en.html#_securing_the_root_password Good luck. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
