How to disable root account?
Dariusz J. Garbowski
thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 19 18:40:41 UTC 2006
On 06/19/2006 07:02 PM, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Hello...again...:)
>
> I had to do an expert install in order to get my fakeRAID working, and I
> guess I somehow enabled the root account in order to create my initial
> user. That's all fine and good, I actually prefer to have a root account
> (I'm stuck in my ways).
>
> My problem is that kdesu is broken and when trying to figure why and how to
> fix it, I ran across this snippet:
>
> "have you enabled root account? KDEsu get's broken when you enable root
> account."
>
> So I guess I have two choice:
> 1) disable the root account
> 2) employ this solution:
> http://consistencies.net/20051018/fixing-kdesu-problems-in-kubuntu/
>
> #2 is less desirable because it makes kdesu want the root password instead
> of my user's password.
See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#head-b06dbcd33c40480dcfd3aada1ca67bbd77f80594
Regards,
Dariusz
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