Re: Wednesday, 5/4/2005 O'Fallon meeting

[Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net>]

What he means, is he likes to login as root. 
What you do is this
 $ sudo passwd
:) And it will then allow you to login normally as root or su - to
root. 
And remember, the root password is the same as the users password. 
-- kyle

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:05 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Monday, May 2, 2005, at 20:22 US/Central, bentley rhodes wrote:
> > whats the big deal about Ubuntu?  i couldn't get it to let me do the 
> > SU thing, becuase it never let me give it a password.  so i ditched it 
> > and came back to FC3.
> 
> It's sudo, not su.  2 letters, big difference.  And you use your user 
> password.  Think OS/X.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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