On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:45, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned kubuntu is a total disaster. I
> > downloaded their latest version 5.10 (if I remember right), burned a CD,
> > did the installation, and ended up with a running system with no root
> > password -- that is a totally useless system for doing any kind of system
> > administration or maintenance.
>
> sudo bash
>
> Ugly, but it works.
Yes, really ugly, but it does work. Thanks. Now at least I have been able to
give my root account a password. Unfortunately, also, what I though was my
personal account, apparently has a lot more power than any sane user should
want.
It is a bit of a pity that they assume the users to be so stupid that they
cannot understand what a "root" account is. I can admit that the word "root"
is probably unfamiliar. However, if they don't like "root" or couldn't
explain it, they could have created an "Administrator" account, with uid=0
guid=0 and that would be much more simple and transparent than sprinkling my
userid in a whole pile of groups. They then could have created my account as
a standard user, which would have been much more consistent with what most
other systems including Windows do, and probably a lot more secure too.
Oh well, at least I now have a Debian-like system with recent software.
Thanks again.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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