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[LUG] ubuntu and root

 

Hi

Yesterday I was having problems printing under windowz, as I had run out of colour ink trying to print a mono document, epson print utils were having none of it, even though I did say print this in mono, duh, no color ink, no print, even though the black in nearly new,
anyway I booted into ubuntu, to see if I could print from there, and 
could not mount c: where my document was.  as I had to be root,  I tried 
to su as  root then remembered that I did not set up a root account 
during install,  plus I remember someone saying that by default normal 
users are part of the wheel group, anyway how am I meant to get root 
priveledges on a ubuntu box.?
thanks

Paul

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