root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Dec 11, Mike Bird did say:

> It's bloody annoying for sysadmins switching from other distros but once
> one has been enlightened its easy enough to set a root password and use
> Ubuntu like regular distros.

Especially if they still use those other distros right???

Actually I've bumped into just enough (and given that I want KDE for my
OPTIONAL gui, that I'm downloading the kubuntu version and will see if I
do better following some advice I got for NON-expert admins to use the
expert mode install... Overwriting my 1st attempt at ubuntu... (course
I've saved a log of most the changes I've made to make it a little more
bearable but we shall see how many of them relate to gnome rather than
other philosophical differences with the ubuntu security team... <grin>

> BTW, in response to an earlier point you made, I use konsole where one
> can readily configure different colored backgrounds for root sessions,
> and even define new session types which automatically start by ssh-ing
> to a different system.  When my KDE desktop comes up it has terminal
> windows running shells on the three key systems from which I sysadmin
> the rest.

Yeah, well If I ever had to admin (or even login to) remote *nix systems
I'd have bothered to get used to ssh (beyond laboriously cobbling together
a small script to remember how to login to a Unix shell I had at UML for
some basic Unix course {probably "intro to" <grin>} I once took...)

:r ~/bin2nd/off/ssh_uml

echo " rem: its the password for user jphil982 it wants... [duh!]"
echo
ssh jphil982 at ce.uml.edu

And usually it meant I did the most the real work locally and used this 
one a lot.

:r ~/bin2nd/off/sftp_uml

echo " rem: its the password for user jphil982 it wants... [duh!]"
echo
sftp jphil982 at ce.uml.edu

Which most always meant I had another konsole open with '$ man sftp' So
that I wouldn't screw up. And another running mc in the same directory
from which I fired up the two scripts... 

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