Re: Which Distribution for VMWare
- From: ulugeyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Turgut Durduran)
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:54:56 +0000 (UTC)
Aragorn (stryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: If you are however not experienced with GNU/Linux, do your research first.
: The /*buntu/ distributions do not allow direct root logins of any kind -
: the root account has been disabled login-wise by not setting up a password
: for it, and that is _not_ the same thing as a blank password! ;-) - so
: you'll have to familiarize yourself with the use of /sudo./
That is easy to circumvent. I have never been too conmfortable without a
root login. so simple "sudo passwd" will set-up a root password and from
then on you will be able to login as root. Also, you can do "sudo
/bin/bash" to emulate it more or less.
ugdc
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