undo sudo

Mike Smith mikeosmith at gmail.com
Wed May 21 17:47:40 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> Is there some way to get rid of that useless sudo command and get root back?
> This is making Ubuntu about as useless for the user as windoze.  Why is there
> all this fear that a user might actually be able to use his own computer?
> It  is called a "Personal Computer" and is becoming anything but, complete
> with noisy bandwasting religious wars over how to better keep the power of
> the computer away from its owner.  Reminds me of the buggy whip makers
> arguments against the manufacturing of the automobile.
>

You can:

sudo passwd root

and login as root, but I've not run into too many situations (as long
as I'm working in my home dir where I need to use sudo.

-- 
Thanks,
Mike Smith




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