Summary: Er....I see that you are using Ubuntu. By default Ubuntu does not assign a password for root as you are expected to use sudo instead and your users pa...
Summary: Ya, i got my sound card, SB Live! Audio, so i installed the emu10k1 driver, and it works fine, but ONLY for root, my sound doesn't work for any oth...
Summary: are you login as a root??? try to login as root(mysql -h localhost -u root), and if you have made a password for root, use this command(mysql -h local...
Summary: i have several shell scripts set up for users and i know this is kinda a rookie question but how do i look up their command history i know for root it...
Summary: Boot into single user mode by typing "single" at the LILO or GRUB prompt! Then, you can change your password. If not, boot Linux using the first C...
Summary: when iam installing the mandrake the system asks about admin name,email address ? ,after several installations the system asks again for root password...
Summary: If somehow you forget your root password, it's not the end of the world! Don't have to reinstall the whole system again. Don't listen to jong357 bec...
Summary: To keep things simple create two more primary partitions, one for swap (approx the same as amount of RAM) and the rest for root (aka "/"). On...
Summary: Chances are that you have more than just one partition on that hard drive as GNU/Linux usually takes at least two, one for swap and one for root...
Summary: There is a linux partitioning HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html) Personally I tend to create three primary partitions, a small ~50...
Summary: Hello all, I usually startx as normal user. However i have a few programs (synaptic, etc.) that requires root access. I could open up a terminal, get ...
Summary: FYI In knoppix you can also get a root prompt on terminals 2-4, ie Ctrl & Alt & F2-F4....from there you could probably fire up another GUI on a differ...
Summary: To allow ordinary users (or usually you as an ordinary user) to use ppp, some changes need to be made. Just make sure that the pppd file has rx permis...
Summary: I have two 5GB drives on my extended partition that I want to use for root and swap drives for a new Linus install. They are now formatted for FAT32....
Summary: You can save your boot sector with "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/other_drive/bootsect.img bs=512 count=1". You can reverse if and of to restore it. Partitio...
Summary: What those two bashrc entries (one for /root/.bashrc and one for ~/.bashrc) will give two different colour prompts so when you su a command you can se...
Summary: I reinstalled Suse on my Celeron system after it had previously refused to boot properly. Now it gets past the "Starting HAL daemon.....done" line eve...
Summary: Please follow the steps below to recover the Root Password. If you have lost the root password, 1) Reboot and get the boot prompt (press Alt as soon...
Summary: If you can edit his bootloader, then he's already known his root's password since you have to be root to edit it!!! Boot your system up using either ...
Summary: Using ftp is a risk as well... For root... You should use this account for system maintenance or update only. Having an autologon is not possible (a...
Summary: I would like to know the differences for root and virtual webs for frontpage extensions. I want to install them but I am confused by whether I use roo...
Summary: I can add something to SNOT's letter. If you have just a small space on your hard disk you can take the following notes: for /boot partition you can ...
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