[KLUG Members] Kubuntu 6.06/X64 How to switch to root in a
terminal.
Brock Inglehart
brocki1 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 6 17:56:37 EST 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:31 -0500, Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
>
> Brock Inglehart wrote:
> > I have a command line only entry to load a plugin. I opened a terminal,
> > typed in the "su" command, the word Password came up on the next line
> > but it would not accept my password. What am I missing to log in as
> > root?
>
> You need to use root's password, not your password. Alternatively, you
> could use sudo (if you are a sudoer) and that takes your password not
> root's.
OK, I'm confused. I only have one password.
Brock
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