[TriLUG] Install - ThinkPad T20

Randall Barlow rpbarlow at ncsu.edu
Mon Jul 18 15:28:19 EDT 2005


David McDowell wrote:

>Ubuntu did the ATI 3D fine,
>but is debian like and no root, sudo everything, etc., so I couldn't
>stand it.
>
All you have to do to enable the root account in Ubuntu is to:

sudo passwd root

Then type in the root password you want and it enables the root 
account.  It will allow you to log in with tty's, but not the gdm by 
default, but you can enable this as well.  Just thought I'd point that 
out...

Randy



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