root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

Peter Lieverdink ubuntu at cafuego.net
Mon Dec 12 00:33:16 UTC 2005


Vram wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:17 -0200, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote:
> 
>>* Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (jtwdyp at ttlc.net) wrote:
>>
>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>>It would appear that on Dec 11, Steve Vandegaer did say:
>>>
>>>
>>>>you can use sudo before a command instead of using the root user.
>>>
>>>Uggg! Don't want to use sudo. If I spend the time learning it, I won't
>>>have time to finish configureing ubuntu before my VA is over and I don't
>>>have the time to spend doing so..

What's there to learn? Type the command you want, put 'sudo' in front of
it, type YOUR password when asked.

- P.





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