Re: Debian Pure

On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:44 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> Greg Madden wrote:
> >On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:45 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> >>Anybody tried this yet???
> >>
> >>http://www.debianpure.com/index.html
> >
> >Another Debian derivative, um mm. I wouldn't call it 'pure' though .
> >Debian arguably strives for that state of nirvana but adding other
> >sources to the sources.list to make a distro more user friendly does
> >not make it 'pure', or even more user friendly, or even legal in the
> > US. IMHO, Ubuntu has done all this rather well and if you can stand
> > the politics of Ubuntu you might as well use ... it.
>
> Funny you should mention Ubuntu, as I downloaded Kubuntu last night. I
> tried the "Live" version.
> Problem was, when I tried to configure my DSL account, it wanted "root"
> permission. Except there was no place to enter or even set up a root
> username/password. It boots into the user account. I tried ending the
> session and see if a root account was available, no such luck.
> Any ideas????

by default there is not a 'root' account setup in Ubuntu. Ubuntu uses
'sudo', 'man sudo'. I have noticed once or twice where this fails when an
app actually wants root and not the sudoers password, I think thats what
is happening. You can create a root password by entering at a command
prompt 'sudo passwd root', then enter a passwd. You can now 'su to
root'.

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Greg Madden
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