access root terminal ??

[Tony]

Yes - thanks - you are right. Let me rephrase! That is something that is
often not set up & used in Ubuntu! :)

-- 
Regards Tony Flavell

tony at millfieldsoftwareservices.co.uk



Christopher Stamper wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Tony
> <tony at millfieldsoftwareservices.co.uk
> <mailto:tony at millfieldsoftwareservices.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     I think the problem is that su requires root password - and that is not
>     really something that exists in Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> Not exactly. You just need to set you your password, so:
> 
> sudo passwd root
> 
> and then use the new password when you use 'su'.
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Stamper
> 
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