backup & low downtime for home network

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 7 20:31:48 UTC 2007


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:59:42PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>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?
>>    
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>
>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.
>  
>
Okay, that worked, but, of course I didn't have to enter 'passwd root'.
'passwd' was sufficient as, I guess, your 'sudo bash' command kinda 
makes me root (?). Anyway, I'm fine now - thanks.

Chris

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