Re: Root in Desktop

lets not forget that if you MUST have a root password, (and for some
things you must)

sudo passwd

will allow you to set it.

On 1/2/07, John L Fjellstad <john-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carsten Aulbert <carsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

should work for all users within the admin group (querying for your
user's password). If you need to execute many commands try

sudo bash

sudo -i

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