lol .. thanks guys. I was aware of what all of you suggested. sudo su, sudo -s -H and also sudo passwd. I meant by default in Ubuntu, the most major usage difference (apparent to me) between it and Debian was the use of sudo. Everything else appears to be the same so far. There appears to be slightly different library layouts to Debian though, I ran into some trouble with the Debian nvidia packages, so resorted to using Ubuntu's packages from Feisty. On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:30 +0100, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > > > Try "sudo passwd" and give root as new password and you enable su again. > > I use "sudo su" in order to get a root shell