Re: [gNewSense-users] 2 questions

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Zplay wrote:
> Marcelo Armengot Iborra wrotes:
...
> > -Is there a root user? I like to be my user and to be the root like
> > lifferent things...
> As in Ubuntu too, there is no root user, just have to use "sudo". But
> you can easily create the root account with: "sudo passwd root"

    As in every variety of Linux (and Unix), there is a root user. In
    Ubuntu and gNewSense, that user is not given a password. In order
    to run commands as root, you use sudo. This is adequate 90% of the
    time.

    At times it is much more convenient to start a root shell. You can
    do that with "sudo -i" (or "sudo bash", "sudo su -", etc.), or you
    can give root a password (sudo passwd root) and become root just
    as any other user. Whichever method you use, use it sparingly; you
    rarely need to be root.

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