HELP!! User issue

[Vram]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:09 -0700, zer0halo wrote:
> Thanks, Vram, you just saved me a few more grey hairs :-)
> 
> I thought that "su" was disabled altogether in Ubuntu. Nice to know
> that you can actually log in as root by doing "su".  I had tried it
> before but always got an authentication error. Is that because I
> hadn't set the root password before?


Correct!!!!


And I KNOW about GRAY hair!!!!!   8^(((


Luck

Vram


> 
> 
> > 
> > So if I understand what is who....
> > 
> > do
> > 
> > sudo passwd root
> > 
> > <it will then ask you for a new root password.>
> > 
> > < it will ask you to retype it>
> > 
> > Now you can su
> > 
> > type your new root password and be good to go...
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > Vram..
> > 
> > <have root and love it>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Impossible is nothing."
>