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04-04-2008, 07:04 PM

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jschiwal

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Question 1 : How do i install / login to "root"

Simply don't. Use sudo, that's what it's there for. Ubuntu adds the first regular user to the "wheel" group so that user can use sudo to run programs as root.

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