Newbie test - Two question

[Elmo]

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Hi all

I am an SUSE user, very happy with it. One of my old laptops does like the
heavy load of SuSE, so I tried installing Kubuntu. All went well with two
exceptions:
My Cisco aironet PC card was not recognized, and it is working under suse
I was not presented with the option to create a root password for login
Any help is appreciated.
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[Stephen Rush]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 00:48:07 +0000, Elmo wrote:

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> Hi all
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> I am an SUSE user, very happy with it. One of my old laptops does like the
> heavy load of SuSE, so I tried installing Kubuntu. All went well with two
> exceptions:
> My Cisco aironet PC card was not recognized, and it is working under suse
> I was not presented with the option to create a root password for login
> Any help is appreciated.
> - --
> Wood contour Inc.
> Solid Wood & Corian PC Peripherals.
> [url]http://www.woodcontour.com[/url]
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The standard Kubuntu installation locks out the root account, so that lazy
users won't be tempted to just log on as root and stay there. For
work requiring root access, you use sudo and your user password. The
first user created at installation time is automatically added to the
sudoers file. It's not as inconvenient as it may sound, because there is
a time window (I can't remember how long) after a successful sudo in which
you can use sudo again without being prompted for your password.

As for the Aironet card, wifi hardware recognition has always been a
problem for Linux. Could you import the driver from SUSE? At least a
Linux driver for your card exists. I have a interface, so I had to wrestle with ndiswrapper and copy the driver out of
my Windows XP partition.

[Conor]

In article <bB8bg.6078$343.3147@trnddc06>, Elmo says...

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> Hi all
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> I am an SUSE user, very happy with it. One of my old laptops does like the
> heavy load of SuSE, so I tried installing Kubuntu. All went well with two
> exceptions:
> My Cisco aironet PC card was not recognized, and it is working under suse

It should work OK under Ubuntu. Certainly on the IBM laptop I stuck
Ubuntu on, the Aironet was automagically detected.

> I was not presented with the option to create a root password for login
> Any help is appreciated.

In Ubuntu, it is set up so you do everything like that with su/sudo
rather than logging in as root. Quite a good idea IMO.

Open a terminal.

sudo passwd root

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Conor,

Same shit, different day.

[Andreas Freytag]

Am Thu, 18 May 2006 21:44:34 -0400 schrieb Stephen Rush:

> It's not as inconvenient as it may sound, because there is a time window
> (I can't remember how long) after a successful sudo in which you can use
> sudo again without being prompted for your password.

15 minutes, turn off with the line:

Defaults timestamp_timeout=0

in your sudoers file. Best is to use sudo visudo to edit the file, it
checks for typos on quitting and gives you a chance to fix it.

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[Philipp Strathausen]

Conor <conor.turton@gmail.com> schrubte:

> Open a terminal.
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> sudo passwd root

I thought it was strongly discouraged to change the password like this,
since all the applications in Ubuntu are preconfigured to work with sudo or
gksudo. By changing the root password, things will get quite complicated
(AFAIK)

Instead, just type "sudo bash" and you are there, logged in as root.

Philipp