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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:45 +0000, John Botwright wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:03:38PM +0000, David Johnson wrote:
> > Ubuntu is somewhat different to Debian. There is a root account, but it's
> > effectively disabled - you can only get root privileges with sudo, using the
> > password of your user account.
>
> This was one of the things that confused me about OS X too!
>
> There's a root user and group, but superuser privelidges are, as far as
> I can see, granted exclusively by sudo. Trying to use su to become
> anything than another *user* is abortive.
>
> Makes sense really, the name you choose for install is placed in the
> sudoers file and they may then grant sudo access to other users.
You can enable the root account by running "sudo passwd root", if you
prefer to have root available (personally I tend to do "sudo -s" anyway,
rather than "su -").
Ben
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