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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. -- 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