[Ham-Linux] Red hat based linux

[T + J Williams]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:40 -0600, Marvin Match wrote:

> 
> Ubuntu is a great distro... I hate it.
> 
> I just could never get my head around preceding commands with sudo. 
> RedHat and its variants allow you to just su to root and carry on. 
> Ubuntu makes you preceed every root command with sudo and the root 
> password every time. What a pain in the neck.

Yes it is, but there is an easy fix.  Run "sudo sh"   (one last time)
and then in that
shell, run "passwd" to set a password for root.  Just don't forget the
password :-)

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Ted W  -  wa0eir
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