Re: [Sheflug] Kubuntu/Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 Spampd

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Peter
> 
>> How did you find out the root password? When I installed Kubuntu
>> yesterday I wasn't given a chance to set it, and now I think I'm
>> going to have to boot another system, chroot into Kubuntu and set
>> the password from there.
> 
> Even though I use OpenBSD every day of the week I don't like sudo in 
> Kubuntu/Ubuntu and so I created a root user so that I could continue 
> to use it in the way that I have always used Linux.
> 
> The instructions for this are somewhere on the Ubuntu site. 
> 
> 
When I used Ubuntu, the root user existed so there was no need to create
it but I used sudo and gave it its own password and then altered my sudo
config.  I have no idea why Ubuntu thought this feature was a good idea.

If I recall correctly, by default you can't log in as root via the
X-server terminal in either Debian or Ubuntu and you have to go in on
the CLI via one of the alternative terminals.  Alternative terminals
accessed via cTRL-aLT- Fn where n =1..7 on SuSE 10.2.


Regards

L.




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