[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: Joseph Smith <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:14:51 -0500
correct--
sudo su makes you root
sudo passwd (followed by setting the password) enables the root account
believe this is the same in debian now.
if in doubt refer to /etc/sudoers (edit w/ visudo)
On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Luke Wilson wrote:
> 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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