On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:13:34 pm steve szmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> > The behavior I was getting was that Ubuntu simply would
> > not save the file. Sudo or not.
> >
> > Of course, you can't log into Ubuntu directly as root.
>
> Just give root a password and you can login as root in a
> shell or in terminal mode.
>
> sudo passwd
>
> if I remember correctly.
With Unbuntu I find that that I have to use 'sudo su'
(followed by password for sudo) to get what just 'su' does
with Suse. (The prompt changes from '$' to '#'.)
Don
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