After reading the support threads I am baffled

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Aug 3 10:12:48 UTC 2005


On wo, 2005-08-03 at 02:43 -0700, James wrote:

> Does it not occur to anyone at UBUNTU that no root user causes us to
> not be able to get into a logged in prompt where we can type sudo -s?
> I cannot find anywhere, one shred of why this has not been addressed.
> I tried the sudo -s from a live boot after installing it, and of
> course that did not work because it is in a different session that I
> made my changes.  Does anyone have a reasonable answer why this Linux
> for the people is harder than any other to get into?

The user you create when installing has full sudo rights. If sudo -s
(better use sudo -i by the way) does not work for you, you've broken it
yourself.
-- 
Dennis K.
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