Re: sudo versus #

From MY perspective, the key thing YOU seem to miss is that I have TWO
passwds, and I think that is the way it should be and want it and it is
bothering me that Ubuntu says I should have one.  I have a total of about
6 passwords that I will never forget.

I understood the part of having no root password.  I DID read at least
SOME of those pages folks sent me.  It explained that and my reaction was,
"blech. that is not what I want."

A basic Ubuntu install has one user that can use sudo and the password
is the same for both.
You want two passwords and basically 2 users; SU and USER.

This is really easy to do!!!! You just make the base user, lets call
him super, have your really long good password and then add a second
users, lets call him newbieUser. He has your very short password.
NewbieUser has no SUDO rights and thus can't get into any trouble.
When you wish to get into trouble just start up a second users. (you
can have 2 signed in at the same time and switch back and forth with
ease). Look up alt-ctrl-f(number).

If you want to lock super into su mode just type sudo su and there are
other ways too.



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