--- In [email protected], "Denton K. Larson" <radio...@...> wrote: > I found it
dENTON > 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 <scottro@> 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/
