On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:42:18PM -0400, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:58:33PM -0400, Pete Theisen wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> Won't save the video configuration no matter what. If you reboot you are
>>> back to whatever the default is.
>>
>> Pete, there's virtually no possible way you could edit the proper config
>> file with the proper permissions and have X *not* respond upon restart.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I have a feeling that the people who think it is possible haven't used
> Ubuntu in a while. They have the root password set to a hash. In order
> to change it to something you would know you would have to know the hash
> and they won't tell you what it is.
My wife has Ubuntu on her laptop, and I have done extensive editing of
root-owned files on it without issue. According to every piece of
documentation I've seen on Ubuntu, sudo gets you root privileges without
actually being root. And being root allows you to edit xorg.conf, which
is the file which drives the X client. Envy will hack this file,
according to the docs, but you can edit xorg.conf to fix whatever Envy
does.
>
> You can sudo to most things using your own password, but not this Nvidia
> X-server settings thing. You can get it set the way you want it using
> the GUI, but you can't save it or copy it.
>
> If you use Envy, it reboots to a state where you can use the GUI to
> reset your x-server the way you want it, but save it? Nope.
Have it your way.
Paul
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