hotot crash at 14.04

[Richard Hector]

On 21/05/14 15:41, Doug wrote:
> On 5/21/2014 2:55 AM, Keith wrote:
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>> The su - is to login as super user which you can't do.
>> If you want to run a program from the command line just type the name of
>> the program.
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>> On 05/20/2014 10:37 PM, maninder singh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am also facing the issue in ubuntu 14.04 like that, when i start the
>>> terminal and give the su - command it does not working it show
> 
> I'm not a regular user of Ubuntu, but I believe that if you want to run
> something that requires root privileges, you type
> 
> sudo filename
> 
> and it will run.
> I'm not sure how that works, since in other distros, you have to
> install yourself in the sudoers file, but maybe Ubuntu does that for
> you. . . .

Or add yourself to the sudo group, which is simpler.

IIRC Ubuntu does that for the initial user, but any additional users
need to be added manually if they are to be trusted with it :-)

Richard