user(s) question
Tim Hanson
tjhanson at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 26 22:55:28 UTC 2010
On Thursday, September 23, 2010 08:41:47 pm rikona wrote:
> When I set up Ub, it asked for a user name. It seems that that user
> has su privileges. I'd like to use that name as a non-su user for
> normal logins. If it was RRR, can I change it to RRRadmin, for
> example, keeping the same UserID and privileges, and add another
> non-su user named RRR? Or - is it better to just add RRRadmin as
> administrator, and set RRR as a normal user?
>
One thing you might want to do is to get a full root account going.
sudo passwd root
You'll be prompted first for your login password, then a root password, then a
confirmation. After that you can log in as root, with a desktop and
everything.
http://happylinuxthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-do-i-get-root-access-in-
ubuntu.html
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