Kubuntu experience

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:22 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:01, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
> > sudo passwd
> >
> > pick your password, and from now on you can use root as you have ever
> > done.
> 
> You are not the only person to tell me how to produce a password for 
> root.  I _know_ that!  :-)
> 
> I am preparing this message on warty, which I have changed by 
> downloading KDE, which is my default operating environment.  My 
> personal password would not work in kde apps (eg kpackage) so I created 
> a root password and have no further trouble.
> 
> Kubuntu will not respond sensibly.  I can set up a root password OK. 
> Kynaptic will not respond to EITHER password - mine or root's.  
> Aptitude recognises MY password but not root's.  Root Konsole 
> recognises root's password but not mine (which is at least, as it 
> should be).  ie this sudo nonsense - rather than the standard root plus 
> personal account - has caused me grief.  WHY not leave well enough 
> alone, Mr Kubuntu?

Brian, has it occurred to you, at all. that you seem to be the only
person who has these bizarre inconsistencies in your installation? I
ask, because it would seem at least possible (unlikely, no doubt), that
you have made a mistake, and that the distro is not actually at fault on
this particular matter.

You insist that "this sudo nonsense" has "caused me grief" - is it at
all possible that the grief is in fact self-inflicted?


> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian
> sos-sa.org.au
> 

Sincerely, in puzzlement,

Peter