[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: Joseph Smith <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:16:49 -0500
ubuntu is essentially a 'testing branch' version of debian. imnsho, a
more usable version of debian for home users (bleeding edge
technology), and ubuntu server and LTS are also very stable.
On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:09 AM, tw wrote:
> Sudo su - will give you full permissions and the root path. If you
> sudo
> su you will get the root user without the root paths. No idea on
> Ubuntu, however. Those guys have made a giant mess of the OS.
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:37 -0500, Derek J. Augustine wrote:
>> sudo su gives me root terminal access in Ubuntu 7.10. Seems pretty
>> supported to me.
>>
>> Luke Wilson wrote:
>>> It certainly wouldn't be "sudo su" unless you're trying to log in as
>>> another non-root user. You issue su with no arguments to become
>>> root,
>>> or you issue it with a username (su someuser) to become that user.
>>> Actually, I'm not sure if su comes with Debian by default - I'm
>>> pretty
>>> sure it's not supported in Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> tw wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ubuntu is a bastardized fork of Debian if I remember correctly.
>>>> Wouldn't it be sudo su - as well?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:15 -0500, Joseph Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If the newest versio nof debian is anything like ubuntu/kubuntu
>>>>> then
>>>>> you use sudo to run commands as superuser.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> you can also do: sudo su (gives you a shell running as root) if
>>>>> you
>>>>> are an admin user.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Jim Worrest wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I seem to have noticed that there is a new way to access
>>>>>> partitions,
>>>>>> with Debian based Linuxes anyway. Referring to a file etc. Is
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> an easy
>>>>>> way to get something that looks like the old way, and the average
>>>>>> user can
>>>>>> access them. By the way, I also notice that Debian doesn't
>>>>>> like to
>>>>>> have a
>>>>>> user named "root" which may be one of the easier ways of doing
>>>>>> things, Any
>>>>>> way of having a "root" user?
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