Hi Scott The sudo shutdown -h now worked, but when came back down to the basement, it was back to the Welcome screen. It isn't any thing big for me. It just has me thinking something is wrong.
Denton --- In [email protected], Scott <scot...@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:24:35PM -0000, Denton K. Larson wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > I have a question about su in Ubuntu 8.1 > > I enter it in a terminal and it asks me for a password. > > How do I enter a password? > > Ubuntu is one of those distributions with the increasingly popular > default of no root password. (ISTR that Mac started it, but I could > easily be wrong.) > > They consider best practice to be to use sudo, rather than su. sudo is > a program that gives you temporary administrative privilege. > > You created a user during installation, say you created the user denton. > > So, rather than doing something in Ubuntu with su, you do > > sudo <whatever>. It asks for a password. The password you give it is > the password for the denton user. > > In Ubuntu, this works for everything. > > > > > > One other that has me scratching my head. When I shut down with Shutdown > > It is off. But when I come back in the morning it is a the Welcome > > sign, What gives? > > Don't scratch your head, it will leave scars. :) > > Sometimes, though this is less frequent than it used to be, a kernel > will lack something that enables it to shutdown a particular machine. > > Other machines are set to automatically reboot when turned off, this is > usually done in the BIOS. > > > Those are both just guesses though. I assume you shutdown by clicking a > shutdown button. You can try opening a terminal and typing > > sudo shutdown -h now > > and see if that works better. > > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Xander: It's time for me to act like a man... and hide. > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
