Thanks Paul I will give that a go. Regards Colum
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Mellors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good > and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so > that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root > password but it refuses to recognise it. Any help would be gratefully > received. I have just migrated from Windows so am new to this. > > Regards > > Colum. Hello Colum You shouldn't need to login as root, just login as a standard user and use the sudo command. ie sudo chmod xxx filename MooDoo -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
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