Re: [PLUG] Freespire Beta Out

["Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com>]

On 7/20/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday 14 July 2006 18:12, Walt Frampus wrote:
> > Up until dapper, I wasn't that impressed with Ubuntu.
> > I do not like using sudo and like a root account.
>
> While Ubuntu disables the root account, it is easy to re-enable.  Search the
> wiki for how to do it.  I did it so long ago, that I can't remember what I
> did except that it to longer to read how to do it than to actually do it.

I think the procedure is:

sudo bash
passwd -u root

Or "sudo passwd -u root" if you like one-liners. :-)

-- Doug
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