[wellylug] UBUNTU 5.10 Dapper. First experiences!

[Daniel Pittman]

robcollins55 at aim.com writes:

> Thanks for the comments Daniel, very useful.  Just a coupla things to
> add:
>
> When I forced a working "log in as root" setup on K(U)buntu, the only
> login that I could then do anything administrative-wise with was the
> "root" one.  ie - it basically meant that I could no longer "sudo"
> from any of the other users in KDE which was totally frustrating.  

That is very odd.  How did you force the "log in as root" deal?

Normally setting a root password, which is all that should be required,
has no effect on sudo at all.

If you did something else -- or used a script to do it for you -- that
could have had flow-on effects that caused the problems you saw.

> In my experience, the whole force-root-acess-on-ubuntu thing just
> undid a lot of work the ubuntu team put in to get sudo working well.
> Personally I would love to have root login access to KDE for the
> purpose of installing new software etc, but it seemed to cause this
> bloody sudo problem elsewhere.

Well, the default setup (with a normal user) will prompt for the account
password to run the installer as root as needed; you shouldn't need to
do anything special for that to work out of the box.

Running the rest of the environment as root is really not necessary; I
routinely install software as a normal user, using the KUbuntu tools to
authenitcate automatically for me.

> Automatix2 - this installer may be the only hope for relatively
> inexperienced users such as myself for installing difficult-to-install
> stuff such as java and flash for firefox and swiftfox plus plugins!

Well, perhaps I am showing my experience here, but installing those is
fairly easy these days -- and the wiki has cut-and-paste instructions.

 (  sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jre flashplayer-mozilla  )

Anyway, I certainly understand the utility of tools like Automatix2; it
would be good, in my opinion, if there was a similar tool bundled with
Ubuntu by default.

Regards,
        Daniel
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