Re: Debian Pure

Greg Madden wrote:

>On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:44 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
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>
>>Greg Madden wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:45 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Anybody tried this yet???
>>>>
>>>>http://www.debianpure.com/index.html
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>>>>
>>>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'.
>
>
So I guess you would use the command 'sudo username' to set up a user
account also??
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Received on Thu Oct 13 22:37:29 2005