Best solution for silly error?

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sudo su then user password. Now you are logged in as root.
On Jul 26, 2014 12:59 PM, "Robert Heller" <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:34:05 +1000 taig at melbpc.org.au,         "Ubuntu
> user technical support,  not for general discussions" <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 26/07/14 05:09, I wrote:
> >
> > > Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
> > >
> > > Initially I ran with one user, with admin privileges etc. Since I
> always
> > > had to enter the main admin password to authenticate some activities I
> > > was of the belief that I was generally NOT operating as ROOT.
> > >
> > > (Please, if someone writes, "yes, that was correct" I'll breathe a big
> > > sigh of relief.)
> >
> > Is anyone able to answer that?
> >
> > Is it true that when a user has "Administer the System" as one of his
> > privileges, but the account type is NOT Administrator, then he can
> > perform administrative functions when needed, but is NOT operating as
> > ROOT (except for those few minutes until the authentication expires).
> >
> > If that's true, is there a time setting?
>
> With Ubuntu (and I believe Debian in general), 'root' does not have a
> password
> and it is not possible to log in as root.  Instead one *has* to use sudo.
> With sudo, you prefix a priviledged command with 'sudo' and it asks your
> for
> *your* password.  Once authenticated, sudo won't ask you for your password
> again for some time period as a 'convience' in case you need to execute a
> series of priviledged commands within a short period of time.
>
> Generally speaking, this is in fact the recomended practice, although some
> Linux distros (eg RHEL and CentOS) do set up root with a password and will
> let
> you log in as root.
>
> I believe MacOSX works much like Ubuntu, with the first user created given
> sudo access, although MacOSX hides the 'gory details' with a 'pretty GUI'.
> Ubuntu also hides the 'gory details' with a 'pretty GUI', but not everthing
> is buried under a 'pretty GUI', so Ubuntu users will sometimes have to
> fire up
> a terminal window and use the CLI tools.  OTOH, MacOSX does have a terminal
> program, if one hunts for it and bash, etc. is there if you want it,
> although
> few Mac users ever had any reason to go there.
>
>
> >
> > GaryT
> >
> >
>
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