Slapdash
March 1st, 2005, 11:18 AM
Hi there
Here is a short ...about my Linux journey and then a question.
I saw my first Linux... lets say " screen" with SUSE 6. THen I didnt know anything. My friend showed me a couple of things and I thought cool but WAAAAAYYYY too labour intensive etc to do anything. Stayd with WINdowze.
Later I found Mandrake 7 Hmm interesting... This Linux thing was showing promise I thought, still not able to do work or games like I wanted to.
Then about a year ago I found Mandrake 8 and then 9 and 10, Loved it Had a dual boot with Win XP, cool,. Did some stuff played around etc. Still had to use windowze for some stuff.
THen I found UBUNTU, hmmm Awesom nice and clean ... Man I loved the ease of use, loved Synaptic etc. awesom - You know what caused me to leave? SUDO.
THen I found MEPIS, I have been using it ever since and I love it. I went from NOOB to " a bit Wiser than NOOB" Love it.
But I found myself yearning for UBUNTU. Dont ask me why, every so often I come back read the forums and miss the enthusiastic support, the great help from the community, maybe its because I'm from South Africa I relate to the pruduct after all Mark S didnt live too far away from me.
I am the only Linux Desktop in my company and Mepis is doing just great, the rest uses XP or 2000, so it was a great test for a Distro
Now HOARY is coming out and that yearning desire is back with me.... I keep asking myself the question.
"" Should I go back to Ubuntu?"
"Yes" I hear myself say but then another voice "" What about SUDO"
and I think nah, let me stay with MEPIS.
Now my question
How can I log in and have Proper ADMIN rights ( As in Mepis and Windows ) without having to go to the BLOODY command line and Sudo this and Sudo that.
Isnt there a way the Developers can program a feature into UBUNTU Hoary that will let one configure a ROOT user without having to SUDO all the time in a Console?
I would LOVE to use, copy etc. do my work in a Graphical env. without having to run into walls with sudo and console all the time.
Like I said I work in a Windows only env. and for me to be able to have root privs all the time in GNOME / KDE and not in the Console is VERY important. ( I'm not your Average LINUX GURU ) and like to do things as quick as possible - after all time is money.
Maybe there is a feature like this and for some unexplained reason I cant get it to work or find it etc.
I dont want super user with Sudo
I want ROOT when I log in ;)
I am sure there is a lot of people in a corporate env. that feels exactly the way I do and it might keep them from loving ubuntu.
Is there any way to acomplish this?
Here is a short ...about my Linux journey and then a question.
I saw my first Linux... lets say " screen" with SUSE 6. THen I didnt know anything. My friend showed me a couple of things and I thought cool but WAAAAAYYYY too labour intensive etc to do anything. Stayd with WINdowze.
Later I found Mandrake 7 Hmm interesting... This Linux thing was showing promise I thought, still not able to do work or games like I wanted to.
Then about a year ago I found Mandrake 8 and then 9 and 10, Loved it Had a dual boot with Win XP, cool,. Did some stuff played around etc. Still had to use windowze for some stuff.
THen I found UBUNTU, hmmm Awesom nice and clean ... Man I loved the ease of use, loved Synaptic etc. awesom - You know what caused me to leave? SUDO.
THen I found MEPIS, I have been using it ever since and I love it. I went from NOOB to " a bit Wiser than NOOB" Love it.
But I found myself yearning for UBUNTU. Dont ask me why, every so often I come back read the forums and miss the enthusiastic support, the great help from the community, maybe its because I'm from South Africa I relate to the pruduct after all Mark S didnt live too far away from me.
I am the only Linux Desktop in my company and Mepis is doing just great, the rest uses XP or 2000, so it was a great test for a Distro
Now HOARY is coming out and that yearning desire is back with me.... I keep asking myself the question.
"" Should I go back to Ubuntu?"
"Yes" I hear myself say but then another voice "" What about SUDO"
and I think nah, let me stay with MEPIS.
Now my question
How can I log in and have Proper ADMIN rights ( As in Mepis and Windows ) without having to go to the BLOODY command line and Sudo this and Sudo that.
Isnt there a way the Developers can program a feature into UBUNTU Hoary that will let one configure a ROOT user without having to SUDO all the time in a Console?
I would LOVE to use, copy etc. do my work in a Graphical env. without having to run into walls with sudo and console all the time.
Like I said I work in a Windows only env. and for me to be able to have root privs all the time in GNOME / KDE and not in the Console is VERY important. ( I'm not your Average LINUX GURU ) and like to do things as quick as possible - after all time is money.
Maybe there is a feature like this and for some unexplained reason I cant get it to work or find it etc.
I dont want super user with Sudo
I want ROOT when I log in ;)
I am sure there is a lot of people in a corporate env. that feels exactly the way I do and it might keep them from loving ubuntu.
Is there any way to acomplish this?