Re: Crush with UBUNTU

Abdul bijur Vallarkodath <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.region.india.fsug-kochi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
and the passwd they ask during ui admin tools is the user passwd


check the sudoers file for ur user entry

do 
visudo -f /etc/sudoers

this should have an entry for the particular user

On 6/21/05, Abdul bijur Vallarkodath <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> wont work!
> 
> try 
> 
> sudo -s 
> <ur passwd>
> 
> gives u a root shell
> 
> now 
> 
> do a passwd -d root
> passwd root
> new passwd
> repeat
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/21/05, Arun Balakrishnan <arunbalakrishnan-/[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > hi
> > 
> > > By default root account is disabled in it in
> > > runlevel 5---is thr any
> > 
> > ubuntu relies by default on sudo.... for changin the
> > passwd do...
> > 
> > sudo passwd root
> > your current user pass
> > new pass
> > repeat pass
> > 
> > 
> > hope tat helps
> > 
> > arun
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ____________________________________________________
> > Yahoo! Sports
> > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football
> > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > FSUG-Kochi-Discuss mailing list
> > FSUG-Kochi-Discuss-8H24Gfgyrqprzt3WPRo2bV6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org 
> > http://puggy.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-kochi-discuss
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> abdul bijur vallarkodath 
> http://bijur.de/ 




-- 
abdul bijur vallarkodath
http://bijur.de/

_______________________________________________
FSUG-Kochi-Discuss mailing list
FSUG-Kochi-Discuss-8H24Gfgyrqprzt3WPRo2bV6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org
http://puggy.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-kochi-discuss
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.