[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Eric MacAdie]

I su to root (actually sux) and run synaptic from the command line.

Eric MacAdie

Samir Faci wrote:
> I thought I already covered this a while ago in my initial post.....
>
> it's the first thing I do.. but (when I tried it a few versions back)
>
> Ubuntu would get confused.. so some things would take the "root"
> password, but a lot of services, mostly the gui administration still
> wants the main user you created.
>
> Anyhoo...  this thread has taken a nice tangent and is beat to
> death... use what you're comfortable with in the end you're the
> admin... you have to deal with its quirks.
>
> -- 
> Samir
>
> On 2/9/07, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:40 -0600, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
>> > Also if you do an "expert"
>> > install you can setup a root password.
>>
>>
>> Am I the only one who doesn't get why this is an issue? When I setup a
>> box, the very first thing I do (if it's a ubuntu box) is:
>>
>> sudo su -
>> passwd
>>
>> That pretty well takes care of the root password issue.
>>
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