how to get a superuser password?
I have a regular password and a masterpassword, but sometimes I am being asked for a superuserpassword? I have no scripting experience and a very basic idea of how linux works. I am trying to get enough of a handle on this OS, so I can use it comfortably. I know you must have had this question posted many times, but I am very new to Fedora 14 (or any Linux Distribution. So thank you ahead of time to anyone can put this into into my MICROSOFT brain.
budster13 |
Masterpassword? Never heard of it. You should have a password for your user and the root password. Root being all powerful and is sometimes called the superuser. When you installed Fedora you would have been prompted to create a root password.
|
Master password would be the password for Root. To see if you know it, open a terminal and type su then hit enter. You will be prompted for a password. Superuser is much like an administrator account in Microshaft. It is the only user that can make system wide configuration changes. Hope this helps :)
|
Quote:
As others pointed out - there's no such thing as a "master password" in Linux. Also it's bad practice to supply passwords in scripts. Rather have the script executed from an ordinary account, and permit the use of sudo w/o a password. Cheers, Tink |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:36 PM. |