Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD...

[Michael Johnson]

On 4/16/07, David Stanford <dthomas53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/07, John Murphy <freebsd001 at freeode.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > The installation was successful, but it seems odd to not have a root
> > user.
>
>
> The root user is there, it's just somewhat "hidden". I personally hate
> having to type sudo for every command requiring root privileges, so I always
> just set the root password and then su into root:
>
> # sudo passwd root
> <enter new pass>
> # su - root
>

you could always 'sudo su'

> -David
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