On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > > Some youngsters I know thought they were getting into linux with Ubuntu, > and when they needed to fix something we couldn't even log in as root. > > By design. Logging in directly as root is disabled on most modern distros these days. The BKM is to configure a local user with sudo access. Unless you were implying you couldn't even use sudo? -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120429/238b7219/attachment.html>