Root Access

[David M. Carney]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:09:27 -0000, Ken Adams <ken at familyadams.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone 
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> Got a problem!!!! 
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> I have just installed the latest Ubuntu from the i386 iso on a spare P11/350
> machine. The install went exceedingly well and so far all is looking very
> good. 
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> One problem though. 
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> From the Gnome menu, once I have logged in as a user, I want to do a few
> bits like use Synaptic and Network-admin. When I click on the menu for them
> I then get the Root Password prompt and enter it OK, BUT…I get the following
> error message come up… 
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> Failed to run network admin as user root: 
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> Child terminated with 1 status 
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> I can't even bring up a Root Terminal, getting a similar error message. 
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> I CAN go to a standard text console using <CTRL><ALT><F1> and log-in as
> root. 
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> What am I missing?? 
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> Rgds 
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> Ken Adams 
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Did you enable the root account? It's disabled by default in Ubuntu.
Sudo is used instead. (See
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/root)

If you look REAL closely when you try to run those programs, the
dialog box DOES NOT ask for the root password. It asks for YOUR
password.

David

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