How to create a superuser in Kubuntu?

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 11:23:02 UTC 2009


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alvin wrote:
>> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 12:40:47 Ali Milis wrote:
>>>>> option. How do I create a superuser in Kubuntu?
>>>> Well, first of all, you don't need to, since the first user
>>>> automatically has sudo rights.
>>> Really?
>>> What to do if the system crashes and it asks for
>>> root password when booting?
>>
>> Have you tried booting to the recovery console? You will automatically become
>> root. No password will be asked.
>>
> I have always thought of this as a big security hole actually - but it
> works for sure

How would you do it?
What if the SU loose the password?
What someone boots with a live disk?

The one way I know of to keep your data secure is to encrypt it at the
disk level.
http://oei.yungchin.nl/2008/04/23/installing-ubuntu-804-with-full-disk-encryption/
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

Why do we live?




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