Text 9490, 42 rader
Skriven 2007-02-19 15:58:54 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 9478 av August Abolins (1:229/2000)
Ärende: Maybe Mepis, Ooops Ubuntu
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August Abolins wrote in a message to Charles Scaglione:

 AA> Hello, Charles!
 AA> You wrote to August Abolins on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:27:26 -0500: 

 CSA> When you first log on you have a choice of logging on as "user" or
 CSA> "admin".  Just select the latter from the log on menu and use the
 CSA> name and password you chose during installation.

 AA> I only get one logon prompt.  It doesn't offer any choices except
 AA> to enter name and password.  Could this be unique to version 6.10
 AA> of Ubuntu? 

I missed the earlier part of the discussion, but if the question is how to
access a root shell, you would login as yourself at the gui prompt, then open a
shell and type `sudo bash` and when prompted for a password, enter your own
password again. 

By default, Ubuntu doesn't allow direct login as root. However, once you are at
a root shell, you can change that by simply typing `passwd root` and entering a
new password for the root account. You can then exit the session and when
prompted for username, use root, and the new password you just gave to root. 

 CSA> If you wish to use a Linux distro as your primary operating system,
 CSA> I recommend either Mepis or Xandros.  Of the two, Mepis may be the
 CSA> better choice because it's still free.  Or, like many folks who
 CSA> love
 CSA> Ubuntu\Kubuntu, stay one version behind the latest release.

 AA> I may as well give Mepis a shot.  Thanks for the heads up.  Do you
 AA> recommend the three ISOs of extras?

I personally have no problems running Ubuntu, but I am coming at it from a deep
experience base of Unix/Linux experience. Even my old OS2 system responded more
like a Unix system than IBM ever intended :) 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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