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Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith966 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 00:09:36 UTC 2016


so at the log in prompt
instead of logging in with my user name I put root and then the password 
that I set up?
thanks
Hank

On 3/29/2016 4:56 PM, Karl Wilbur wrote:
> I know you already acknowledged this, but it generally a very very 
> very bad idea to allow full root access in this way.
>
> First, you could just log in as `root`. That gives you full root access.
>
> You could also add your user to the `admin` group.
>
> But your simplest solution might be to just your user to the `sudoers` 
> file.
>
> Check this out:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/334318/sudoers-file-enable-nopasswd-for-user-all-commands
>
>
> --
> Karl Wilbur
> 513-322-2481
> karl at karlwilbur.net <mailto:karl at karlwilbur.net>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona 
> <hank.smith966 at gmail.com <mailto:hank.smith966 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello how do I tell ubuntu to allow all root access?
>     I will be the only one using the linux virtual machine and i want
>     to give it all root privoliges
>     I know the security risks but still want to do this.
>     how do I get this set up?
>     am usinb ubuntu 14.04 mate on vmware player
>     thanks
>     Hank
>
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