Changing to root in konqi

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon May 29 21:52:50 UTC 2006


On 5/30/06, Samuel Avery-QUinn <samquin_n at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Apologies in advance if anything I type is incorrect.
>
> One of the unique features of Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based
> distros (Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, et al) is
> basically a lack of a Root user.  All users on the
> system have to accomplish Root tasks through SUDO.
> This can be a little annoying at times (ie. running
> KPackage or a KDE program that expects some commands
> to be run as root rather than sudo).
>
> -Sam Avery-Quinn

There's no lack of a root user. During install root is given a random
password and then it is unusable by the user. Using sudo I changed
root's password to something that I want, and I can "su -" to root
whenever I need.

Dotan Cohen
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