[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: Luke Wilson <lwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:46:42 -0500
The last version of Ubuntu I used (7.10, I think) didn't have a root
password - you just had to use sudo until you issued "sudo passwd" and
created a root password.
Gabe Ives wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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.
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