On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:57 in <1191182234.6552.22.camel at main1>,
Philip Creevy wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 20:44 +0100, new_xubuntu at eircom.net wrote:
>> - I tried Red Hat 5 a couple of years ago and then you were free to
>> become root and run commands, but I have read that Xubuntu restricts
>> this, and everything must be run using "sudo". Is this correct?
>>>> Yes but you can type sudo su to become root
>
You can also type sudo passwd root to set a root password, then you can just
su as normal.
Marcus.
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