On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:40:50PM +0200, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > Hi people, > > I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general. > I installed it on HD without troubles (well, only after I realized that > my dev/hda1 was mounted from startup becasue I have too little RAM and a > swapfile was being automatically created, so I had to boot at runlevel 3 > to skip KDE) > So far everything works like a charm, except for one thing, the system > is configured to disallow root login... > I know that suing is inherently more secure but for some tasks I rather > login straight as root. > I modified the file apt.d/login (or something like that), commenting out > the entry whose remark said it prevented root logins, but no luck. > Also, I'm sure I got to "sudo" on a couple of occasions, but now I get > an error that I'm not on the suders list (or so)...
To add yourself to the sudoers file, become root either at the console ir in a terminal window, and execute visudo. Edit the file, adding yourself. It is well commented and you should be able to follow the examples pretty easily. Now, repeat after me: "Logging in as root is a *bad* idea." Repeat that a sufficient number of times that you believe it. There is not one single task that *requires* you to login as root, with the exception of single user mode. Everything you need can be accessed via su, sux and sudo. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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