On 16/06/14 04:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-15 08:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
However, if one knows what to do, one can then create a ROOT with his/her own password to do "all sorts of unspeakable things to the system (ooooh!)" :-) . But how to do this is clouded in 'mystery and intrigue' and only made known by getting really pally with The High Priests :-) . Huh? I did it myself on the only ubuntu system I touched about two minutes after sitting on the chair, without asking for help to anyone or googling it.
"Now that was good, very good, Carlos. "And now for your next task which is worth $100....." O:-) . (Actually, there is some doco in Ubuntu's Community Documentation, and Launchpad, on how to do this - but I have never bothered to do so because 'sudo' did almost everything.) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org