administrator privileges for desktop 8.04

[David Hughes]

you want to use sudo.  sudo prompts you for your own password, and logs your
use for the sysadmin, which is the folks up at ubuntu.

if you want to operate fully as root, use "sudo bash".

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:

> I want to run /usr/bin/updatedb on my newly installed Ubuntu 8.04.  How
> do I do that?
> Tom
> tom at tom-desktop:~$ su
> Password:
> su: Authentication failure
> tom at tom-desktop:~$ cd /usr/bin
> tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$ updatedb
> updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'
> tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$
>
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