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? > > > > ---- > > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE > > > > > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE > > ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE