SUDO

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 4/21/05, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:45, Matt Christian wrote:
>
> <snip>
> 
> I've been somehat disapponted with the answers you have received on this
> issue.  May I refer you to the post by James Wilkinson under the
> subject "Re: Kubuntu Experience" which is SO much more sensible than
> that patronising wiki and does NOT assume you should not be asking
> about root passwords.
> 
> The info from  audriusb at homelan.lt  gave help I could not find
> elsewhere, so there seems to be a gap somewhere in the ubuntu
> documentation.  All of it seems aimed at the linux newbie desktop user
> and very little aimed at the more experienced looking for a more
> effective distro.

If you don't like sudo, all you need is a one liner:

sudo passwd root

Simple, in the wiki, and any experienced linux user who needs it,
should have no problem doing it.



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Russ