[QCLUG] I broke it

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:54:28PM -0600, Mark Riedesel wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2008 10:21 AM, Robert Jones <robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> > Good Morning Mark,  Yes, I used the device node.  I found instructions
> > on using the UUID but I couldn't figure out how to use it.  It continued
> > to come up with an error code.  What would be the exact code to use in
> > my fstab that would give me full user access to an external USB NTFS (or
> > FAT32) drive.  I understand how to find the UUID.  If I use "defaults"
> > than it seems it will go to "root" since that is the default for Ubuntu,
> > or so I read.  What I used before was the same code that I had used for
> > my internal drives.  I have the notes and such downstairs but I think it
> > was something like "/dev/media/???   users ..."
> 
> Determine your regular user's userid (UID), you can do this using this command:

> echo $UID

(more portably: id -u)

> I've gotten used to using sudo so I don't bother setting a password
> for the root user, or just `sudo su` to switch to root.

Eeew? :)  Try 'sudo -s' instead, much more elegant. :)

> Does Ubuntu have some weird graphical app for setting the root password?

Can be done from the users-admin UI (System->Administration->Users and
Groups).

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