On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:40:50PM +0200, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
Hi people,
I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general.
I installed it on HD without troubles (well, only after I realized that
my dev/hda1 was mounted from startup becasue I have too little RAM and a
swapfile was being automatically created, so I had to boot at runlevel 3
to skip KDE)
So far everything works like a charm, except for one thing, the system
is configured to disallow root login...
I know that suing is inherently more secure but for some tasks I rather
login straight as root.
I modified the file apt.d/login (or something like that), commenting out
the entry whose remark said it prevented root logins, but no luck.
Also, I'm sure I got to "sudo" on a couple of occasions, but now I get
an error that I'm not on the suders list (or so)...
To add yourself to the sudoers file, become root either at the console
ir in a terminal window, and execute visudo. Edit the file, adding
yourself. It is well commented and you should be able to follow the
examples pretty easily.
Now, repeat after me: "Logging in as root is a *bad* idea."
Repeat that a sufficient number of times that you believe it. There is
not one single task that *requires* you to login as root, with the
exception of single user mode. Everything you need can be accessed via
su, sux and sudo.