Dear friends, Dennis and Karl:
Nope, I did not do that as I was not aware of this option. I never used Ubuntu in the past, I only used Debian and then added gNewSense to (most) of my computers. Thanks a lot for the tip. Since my friend is a total newbie to GNU/Linux, instead of giving him back root access I was thinking of just doing 'passwd' in the root shell and create a password for myself on his machine. From the Ubuntu doc Michael pointed out to me I get that while this might not be the most convenient thing for him right now (as soon as he is more comfortable I will give him the admin rights back) it is easier for me to keep an eye on what he will be doing. That would not be a problem, right? Michael: Thanks for the link to the Ubuntu doc. This sudo thing is new to me, but it seems to make sense, in particular that some stuff still seems needs a root password (like stopping or killing a process). Jay: Why should I copy the password hash and not just simply delete the password as I did (which obviously did not work - but I wonder why it did not)? Cheers, Andrei On 2/21/07, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
andrei raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed gNewSense on a friend's computer. The Ubuntu > installer asks for the creation of a user with root-type admin access. > I created that account under my friend's name, then when I wanted to > create another account for his brother I realized that my friend would > have full admin access. So I used his account to create another > account for his brother and then I took away my friend's admin > privileges. > Try rebooting in rescue mode (hit escape when grub is booting). it should boot directly into a root shell, where you can type `adduser friendlogin admin` kk -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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