Pete Boyd wrote:
Ask your Ubuntu question here and you get a Debian answer, rather than an
Ubuntu answer. The two worlds are subtly but importantly different.
The answers to the same question on ubuntu-users[1] are mostly the same
as here. Some people suggesting setting a password and then us
Pete Boyd writes:
> The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account
> called 'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu...
Yes it does. It just has logins disabled.
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On Monday 29 June 2009 16:28:11 thveillon.debian wrote:
> Luis Maceira wrote:
> > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running
> > Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative
> > tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su passwor
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Luis Maceira wrote:
>
> As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu
> (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
> upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
> that come wi
The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account called
'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu (yes it can if you want
it to, but it doesn't by design, so why resurrect it). Answering that
question for Luis doesn't answer his actual question, which is more like
'what is
On Seg, 29 Jun 2009, Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote:
(since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
Maybe the root account is disabled. If you i
On 6/29/09 9:28 AM, thveillon.debian wrote:
Hi, Ubuntu works with "sudo" only (and your user password), the root
password isn't configured. You can use the "passwd" command to set it I
believe.
Yes. 'sudo passwd' works fine to enable root.
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote:
(since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
Maybe the root account is disabled. If you install lenny you can choose
this option as
Luis Maceira wrote:
> As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu
> (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
> upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
> that come with the netbook.Is there any standard
Luis Maceira wrote:
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu
(since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
that come with the netbook.Is there any standard passw
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu
(since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks:
upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs
that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use
in t
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