<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>>Cary Wrote:</div>>Message: 3<br>>Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 20:52:52 +1000<br>>From: Cary Bielenberg <<a href="mailto:cary@bielenberg.id.au">cary@bielenberg.id.au</a>><br>>Subject: Adding sudo permissions to additional user <br>>To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <<a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:48394504.5020209@bielenberg.id.au">48394504.5020209@bielenberg.id.au</a>><br>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br>><br>>Hi,<br>> My daughter came to me tonight & said she was over Windows what <br>>could I do but give her Kubuntu :-) She is delighted & is happily <br>>chatting in Kopete. I was going to show her how to add software but she <br>>cant sudo as it denies her password. Does anyone no how to give her sudo <br>>functionality?<br>><br>><br>>TIA Cary<div><br></div><div>Hi Cary, Basically you can return to the old ways of unix, </div><div>give root a password and give the password to your</div><div>daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>Open a terminal and</div><div>$ sudo passwd root</div><div>Password: ********* #it's asking for your password</div><div>Enter new UNIX password: *********</div><div>Retype new UINX password: *********</div><div>passwd: password updated sucessfully</div><div>$ su</div><div>Password: ********** #put in the new password</div><div>root # # and you get root user access</div><div>root # aptitude # my favorite software adding and updating program</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>tom</div></body></html>