27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
6:57 p.m.
On Friday 27 February 2015 10:54:29 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 27 February 2015 15:42:39 Gene Heskett
wrote:
It's something I haven't had to do in 4+ years, feels a bit retrograde, and a
different password will confound my usage on the other 4 machines here.
On Friday 27 February 2015 09:01:53 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
No, Gene, it isn't. You installed that cnc or something special version.
On Friday 27 February 2015 13:24:21 Uwe Brauer
wrote:
Lisi; I ran into something else last night using that admin utility. I
use sudo for all the root stuff and have never even set a root password.
This is a more of less default wheezy install, and uses sudo for all that
stuff. >> "Dave" == Dave Lers
<lists(a)dalrun.com> writes:
> Dan Youngquist wrote:
>> On 02/26/2015 03:22 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>
>> However I opened the control center and I cannot find the user
>> administration tool and am familiar with. Is this included any new
>> package?
>>
>> Is it kuser you're looking for? I think you have to install it
>
> System > User Manager (KUser), default r14 on Wheezy.
And what is with the old one I posted a screenshot of?
I think that that is basically an Ubuntu programme. Perhaps it uis in
Synaptic, if it is no longet there by default.
Lisi The password for "admin", eg root,
tasks does not accept the users sudo
password, asking for the (root? it doesn't say) password in a forever
loop. This is a bug. I suspect its TDE wide in effect. And should be
filed.
No, it isn't a bug. Just set up a root password. Most of us using Debian
(not all, I agree) have one. Google "ubuntu set root password".
I can generally hack around it with a sudo -i
session of geany, (never
gedit as it can trash, BTDT, several times, your whole system,) but find
that it also does not work because the root acquired in that manner
cannot run any graphical interfaces since the X session is the users. So
an immortal root session to get several things done, is turned into an
individual sudo name_of_command.
That can be a right PITA, even for a user whose first linux install was
Red Hat 5.0 in 1998.
There was at one time a workaround which consisted of actually starting
another X session for root, a bad practice IMO, and I've long since
forgotten how to do it. 80 yo wet ram problems. Yeah, old coot at the
wheel here.
Just set up a root password! And do remember, because it seems often to be
relevant, you have NOT got a default Wheezy install. (You had issues with
that, remember? You found a one person bug!!)
Chuckle, I am a graduate, Summa Cum Laude, of the school that teaches how to
do that. I must have got stoned and missed it though, don't even remember
taking the course, but I am very very good at that.
What is the maximum length of a password in characters?
Thanks Lisi.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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