[AuckLUG] Help with Ubuntu

[Stephen Ward]

for desktops discouraging use of the root account is nice but any server I build first thing I do is 'sudo passwd'.  Seen two people caught out, fortunately on low impact servers.  Once sudo wouldn't work after using ntpdate and the other messed up manually editing sudoers file (always sudo adduser user admin or visudo).  In both cases a reboot was required.

Stephen Ward
Electrical and Computer Engineering


-----Original Message-----
From: aucklug-bounces at linux.net.nz on behalf of Morgan Varaine
Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 10:23
To: Auckland Linux User Group mailing list
Subject: Re: [AuckLUG] Help with Ubuntu
 
And remember folks, if you need root, you can just "sudo su" ....

Which I wish they'd change...

:)

On 10/17/06, Alan Purchase <alan at tregenna.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:55 +1300, ken at lomax.gen.nz wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > After seeing people extol the virtues of Ubuntu on this list, I thought I
> > would give it a try.
> >
> > I have a DVD for Ubuntu Version 6.0 from Linux Magazine August 2006. Today I
> > installed a 'Server Install'. The install went reasonably ok. then the
> > problems began. Firstly I had to reboot and go into rescue mode to assign a
> > password to root, so I could work on the machine. Then I wanted to install
> > some services (nptd, dhcpd, named, etc). They did not appear to be installed
> > and I do not remember any screen during install that asked which services
> > that I wanted. So I decided to look on the dvd. While the machine recognised
> > the dvd, it would not display anything using 'ls' except for "." and "..".
> > It appears that there is little that I can do with this machine.
> >
> > Am I missing something? I am very familiar with RedHat/Fedora and have done
> > many installs and maintenance on those machines.
> >
> > Can someone point me to where I can get some help, or do I go back to
> > Fedora?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ken
>
> Try the Ubuntu web site http://www.ubuntu.com/ , Wiki
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ , Knowledge Tree
> http://wiki.ktdms.com/Ubuntu_6.06 and Forums
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ . And stick with Ubuntu, believe me it's
> worth it.
>
> Cheers, Alan.
>
> >
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