[juneau-lug] Re: Change to Debian solved
- From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 08:22:03 -0800
On 05/10/2011 02:53 AM, Larry Hurlock wrote:
> Fellas, thanks to insomnia brought about by refusal to quit, the CUPS
> id problem got solved. By using "root" as my username on their form
> and providing my root/superuser password, I sneaked on to CUPS and
> was able to load my favorite driver so I now have a printer. "root"
> as a username, who knew? Sorry for the bother.
Glad you got it sorted Larry. In ubuntu, the root account is more or
less disabled. You can easily go into it by doing 'sudo su root' and
then setting a password. Some religions mandate that one never log in
as root. Mortal sin. Only use sudo. Others are more understanding.
Debian is one of the latter. The root account is just another account,
which just happens to be able to do about anything on a system.
When I manage my Debian system (or the openSUSE system at home) I just
open a terminal and do 'su -', enter the root password, and then do
whatever system stuff needs to be done. I find it much handier than
sudo in most cases.
Did you go w/gnome or KDE?
...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
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