Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>>>> No, by default, you cannot log in as root, because on Ubuntu, the root
>>>>> account is disabled for improved security. To get a root shell, do
>>>>> "sudo -s" and use *your own* password.
>>>>>
>>>> I think you mean "sudo -i".
>>> You may very well think that, but I did not; I meant "sudo -s".
>>>
>>> On reading the man page, I see what -i does and I will try to remember
>>> it, should I ever need that behaviour, but -s is the one I use daily.
>>>
>> Well, now that I think about it, the PATH env var does already have all
>> the directories that root would have if not more. Still suffering from
>> the 'su' vs 'su -' mindset over here.
> 
> Ahhh. OK.  Perhaps you come from a big-unix culture where ordinary
> admins don't get root access or something.

Not really. It just happened to be the standard procedure in my first 
Linux-related job. sshd does not allow root login and woe be anyone who 
changes that.