Best solution for silly error?

[xek3149]

User with sudo privileges that is
On Jul 27, 2014 7:36 PM, "xek3149" <xek3149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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