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On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 21:07, Paul Sutton wrote: > 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.? Type 'sudo -s' to get a root shell. The password is your user password. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html