[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions

  • From: Gabe Ives <gabe@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:40:48 -0500

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.

su is in *Ubuntu, you can use it if you have sudo rights (as said before
sudo suOR if you have assigned a password to root.  All the Linux
distros that "disable" root, just don't assign a password to root, if
you assign root a password, things are back to the way they use to be.

Gabe

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