[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[DYNATRON tech]

(suse)
last time i tried a suse distro, it literally took overnight downloading
updates before i could put it into service.

(root ubuntu)
under login window prefrences (system->administration->login
window->security tab) there is a checkbox for allowing "local system
administrator", and "remote system administrator" login. it's blank by
default, and i've never used the setting, but something tells me you could
login root if you tried it. give it a try if you need a root shell that
bad...

just remember every application you run will have root priv., including your
web browser. very dangerous if you ask me.



On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:

> Or enable the root account.
>
> If you install from the alternate cd you can even set a root password
> at install, as well as encrypting your home directory.
>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:04 PM, DYNATRON tech wrote:
>
> >
> > you can always sudo.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lol
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Aric Aasgaard" <aric at omahax.com>
> >>
> >> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:59:06
> >> To: <dthacker9 at cox.net>; 'Omaha Linux User Group'<olug at olug.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu, cant su root
> >>
> >>
> >> Super user switching in SCO should have an e at the end of su.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On
> >> Behalf Of
> >> Dave
> >> Thacker
> >> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:49 AM
> >> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> >> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu, cant su root
> >>
> >> On Friday 24 July 2009 15:03:19 Charles.Bird wrote:
> >>> If i had unstable hormones, like some people that i know in my
> >>> life, i
> >>> would be curled up crying about how i lost my linux skills to a
> >>> windows
> >>> shop right now.
> >>
> >> Could be worse.  You could be curled up crying about how you lost
> >> your
> >> linux
> >>
> >> skills to SCO Unix shop.........   Please excuse me, I have another
> >> 90 or
> >> so
> >>
> >> kernels to relink.....
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Yes, it was
> >>>>
> >>>> I remember being infuriated with it in Ubuntu 6.06.
> >>>>
> >>>> Charles.Bird wrote:
> >>>>> I wonder why that is?
> >>>>> it didnt used to be like that did it, on older versions on Ubuntu?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> Phil Brutsche
> >>>> phil at brutsche.us
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