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ArthurA4 Joined: Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Other Topics	Posted Mar 19, 2008 at 5:33:42 PM Subject: admin password Is their a way to disable the admin password?
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1536 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Mar 25, 2008 6:10:05 PM Subject: admin password What distribution? What do you ultimately want to do? Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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ArthurA4 Joined Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 26, 2008 4:22:10 PM Subject: admin password This is for ubuntu 7.0. You know how you go to like package manager and your required to type your user/password. Same with other programs. Is their way you can disable so you dont need to type in everytime?
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Snowman Joined Mar 26, 2008 Posts: 13 Location:Florida, USA Other Topics	Posted: Mar 26, 2008 8:03:23 PM Subject: admin password I don't know why you'd want to disable the security but it's possible. I'm not sure how it's done in Ubuntu but when you type-in the admin password, do you have the option to "remember" the password? If so check it to do just that for all times. What if Bill Gates had a nickle for every time a Windows computer crashes... OH WAIT, he does!!!
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1536 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Mar 27, 2008 8:10:56 AM Subject: admin password Snowman's solution is not applicable for Ubuntu. You can't just set the "remember" option, because you don't get it :) This is the way to do it: http://www.ubuntutips.net/node/21 You need to edit the /etc/sudoers file as described, but I won't recommend it unless you're certain your machine is impervious to miscreants. Cheers! Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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ArthurA4 Joined Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 27, 2008 10:46:38 PM Subject: admin password Shashank your the man, i will try this out and thanks again. peter
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alpinesatan.com Joined Dec 01, 2007 Posts: 639 Location:London, England Other Topics	Posted: Mar 28, 2008 1:44:36 PM Subject: admin password Just bear in mind, i think that this is a bad idea. It maybe an idea to emable it when your finished doing what you need. Kind Regards OS X 10.4.11 and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, not forgetting fedora :D
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ArthurA4 Joined Jan 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 31, 2008 4:05:45 AM Subject: admin password I was unable to open with any text editor and i know how to navigate to it in the comand line but not edit it?
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1536 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Mar 31, 2008 10:49:27 AM Subject: admin password Arthur, sorry about that. I failed to mention you can't just edit the sudoers file. You need to use visudo command to do it. I assumed the link I provided would explain this, so I didn't even check. Use the command: sudo visudo This will open the /etc/sudoers file and you can then edit it. The default editor is NANO instead of vi in Ubuntu, if you're not sure how to use NANO, this might help: 1. Scroll down to the line you want to edit. 2. Type what you want. 3. To save, press Ctrl+x and then I think it'll ask you if you want to save so press y Cheers! Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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