I'm using Kubuntu 7.04, so feisty! For security purposes, I gave the user 'root' the UID 1000 and created a user account (punisher) and gave it the UID 0, effectively making it root (what we normally consider to be root, anyway). All was fine and well until I decided to update my machine. When I try to open Adept Notifier, I'm asked to authenticate with the su password.

I've determined that 'su' without options is tied to the username root, not the UID 0 so it's asking me to enter the password of a regular user account that doesn't have the permissions to update. I would like to continue using punisher as the account with the UID 0 but want to avoid this issue. Any thoughts on this? Anyone tried this?

Thanks a bunch.
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What's the point, anyway? Especially in Ubuntu, where the root account is disabled by default.

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did you add this new user to sudoers file with root permissions. If you do that then I think you wont have any problems

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