Or just "sudo -s" to spawn a new shell as the superuser. Hey, since when did this list become an Ubuntu supportline? :) // Anders On 3/21/07, Jochen Becher <jochen_becher@xxxxxx> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2007, 09:20 +1000 schrieb Jason Rainforest: > then some packages weren't new enough or they just didn't exist yet. > Installing Ubuntu fixed this, and is close enough to Debian that I > haven't missed anything. The most major difference is using sudo rather > than just su'ing to root, everything else is familiar (it's built on > Debian afterall). That and having much newer versions of everything is Try "sudo passwd" and give root as new password and you enable su again. Regards, Jochen