backup & low downtime for home network

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:59:42PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Okay - I'm trying that now. I'm getting 'Authentication Failure' trying 
> to 'su'. I had that problem the first time I installed ubuntu (on 
> antoher system) - it finally settled down and accepted my regular user 
> password. Why is this a cryptic thing in ubuntu?

Try sudo.

I think by default ubuntu runs root with no password set (meaning there
is no way to login as root directly, not that the password is blank).
sudo is then setup to allow the first user created to do root things.

So 'sudo bash', should get a root shell.  You could then set a password
for root if desired using the 'passwd root' command.

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Len Sorensen
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