Although this is not advisable from a security point of view you can use swat with the root account if you first give the root account a password. It is there it just doesn't have a password.
To give the root user a password you do:- sudo passwd root you will then be prompted for your normal user password in order to execute the sudo command but only if you haven't used sudo for a few minutes, you will then see the following :- Enter new Unix password: this means the new root password as the user passed to "passwd" was "root" you will then be asked to retype this new password and you are away for using swat as root. This worked for me on a secure network with feisty (after first installing the openbsd-inetd package which can be used to launch swat) Please note this has a baring on the system security and as such you should really understand what the implications are before doing this. But if you are on a secure network then great. Again note that this is a bad idea as you root password will be transmitted in open text across a network if you use swat over a network, use with extrem caution and only if you know about such things. I have added this note by way of supplying a work around. Please be advised that I am not an expert in these matters and hope that this comment might attract other more knowledgeable ones. I hope this helps someone. -- SWAT expects to authenticate as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5608 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
