[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Larry Garfield]

On Friday 09 February 2007 3:29 pm, 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.

That's because it's not asking for you to login as root.  It's asking you to 
confirm yourself for a sudo operation.  

I'm running Ubuntu-server on my server and Kubuntu on my desktop now, and I'm 
quite happy with both.  The "lack of root" has never been an issue for me, 
not once.  If I actually need to do a lot of things as root and don't feel 
like sudo-ing every command, I just do:

sudo su -

Enter my own password, and poof, a root prompt.  Really, the "lack of root" 
thing is nowhere near the issue some people make it out to be.

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