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11-12-2005 09:39 PM |
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Originally posted by M O L8ingN2dust
This is the first distro yet that I have used that disallows that.
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Yeah, Ubuntu's unique that way--contrary to the post you were responding to. I haven't found a single other "modern" distro that prevents you from logging in as root.
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If that is the case, that is pretty annoying! There are many things logging in as root is useful for. For instance, I have a home partition, and a root partition. If I want to resize my home partition I need to unmount it. I can't unmount it unless I log in as root, otherwise it will be "busy". Using sudo wont help me there.
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Actually, it will. You just type
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Also, annoyingly enough, this distro seems to have only created 1 partition and a swap partition. That being the case, partitioning is effectively impossible.
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Did you have Ubuntu choose to automatically partition the entire hard disk? Yeah, I've heard it's bad about allocating space. That's why I always choose to manually edit the partition table.
As for sudo... at first I was annoyed with it when I started using Ubuntu, but it's really grown on me. You may want to read this explanation for why Ubuntu uses sudo--there are security and other considerations. I've also learned of some good workarounds that, once you get used to them, actually are more convenient than logging out, logging back in as root, logging out again, and logging back in as user.
For example, if you create a launcher with the command you can browse around as root within your user account temporarily. Once you close the browser window, you're back to being a regular user fully. Give it a shot. If you don't like it after a while, you can also enable root (see link above for more info on that).
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