From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 20:41:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FA616A402 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:41:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fedyat@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64B913C4BA for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fedyat@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1687591wra for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:41:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=iOgMOZ5iFB+MZkdycWybzyueRwBHY8keTvFcSZ8OKk80GnYks8wAi8xH44Ln4vx55TeX8ZjdoNkP2srVA2Shqyv7RTMemS3KSrwgiOlEQFy/kB299XKNtnF+eKGEWNQdB9L4QeWAsSubbr8ig+he5ckjCHrKsdbpssjILCo+20I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=M/F96o5bSCII401Y9M0TqGLQtdlcbGhJuKzfBan08CTctwOa6C5VVVFPV+Eyn2k2vNwxGakU9J05+2Mtv9Rygc5LtnjG9WkBXWLUPin1lHv2EpUUjTsJizBXoh/rhiDBzXTnqYO3Z16j4Wfy6us3UdppbIGPVSM8ChnI/uSIC/8= Received: by 10.114.181.1 with SMTP id d1mr2064499waf.1176754351260; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.72.10 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65677df80704161312n2e3fe95ahe7a101b71175b6e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:12:31 -0400 From: "Theodore Trubetskoy" Sender: fedyat@gmail.com To: "Matthew D. Fuller" In-Reply-To: <20070416192338.GT4805@over-yonder.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070416192338.GT4805@over-yonder.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e8ec3eab725405c7 Cc: David Stanford , freebsd001@freeode.co.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:41:35 -0000 On 4/16/07, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:16:45AM -0400 I heard the voice of > David Stanford, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > The root user is there, it's just somewhat "hidden". I personally hate > > having to type sudo for every command requiring root privileges, so I always > > just set the root password and then su into root: > > > > # sudo passwd root > > > > # su - root > > Or you could just "sudo tcsh". Or just "sudo -s" --fedya