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    password password and more passwords

    is there a way to stop kubuntu stop asking for passwords? its really annoying and getting on my nerves also whats a super user >.<

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    Re: password password and more passwords

    Originally posted by marine63
    is there a way to stop kubuntu stop asking for passwords?
    yes, there is.

    Originally posted by marine63
    its really annoying and getting on my nerves also whats a super user >.<
    the root user , also known as the super user, is, in practice,
    a special user on your system, that has administration privileges.
    actually, in a unix/linux operating system, it is omnipotent.

    all the other users will not, by default, be allowed to do administration
    tasks, unless these involve (or refer to) that user's own stuff.

    like, you're allowed to change your wallpaper, but will not be allowed to
    write a file in another user's home directory or change their wallpaper
    or login password...

    you should probably further read this.

    when your kubuntu asks for your password, what it is actually doing is
    requiring your permission to execute the thing you're executing with
    the administrator's privileges.

    by entering your own password correctly you activate this mechanism.
    and the special action (in that it requires special privileges) you're performing
    is then performed as if you were the system administrator.

    it is a security measure...and a very important one, too.

    it is, by the way, one of the things that protects linux a little better than
    you-know-what from stuff like viruses, spywares, malwares, ...

    if, after this, you're still determined to stop kubuntu ask you your
    password...
    , i suggest the following:
    a) hit alt-f2
    b) enter
    Code:
    kdesu kate /etc/sudoers
    c) enter your password (see? we're changing a system setting and we need adm privileges...)
    d) change this line
    %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
    to read like this
    %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
    or like this (to try and limit the damages)
    your_username_here ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
    e) save and exit (no need to reboot or anything: changes are immediately effective)

    hth
    cheers
    gnu/linux is not windoze

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      #3
      Re: password password and more passwords

      But, be forewarned: If you remove the requiremet for a root password, thereby giving yourself (and any other user you have established on your system) 'God like control' then, like a God, you (or another user) can destroy your own system inadvertently, and with no warning!
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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        #4
        Re: password password and more passwords

        good mayb then my parents would buy me a better computer.
        better than a
        1.6ghz
        100hdd
        384mb of ram sdram
        nvidia vanta

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          #5
          Re: password password and more passwords

          Originally posted by Snowhog
          can destroy your own system
          Trust me: not only she can, but surely she will :P

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            #6
            Re: password password and more passwords

            Originally posted by marine63
            good mayb then my parents would buy me a better computer.
            Well, first of all, it's not going to actually damage the hardware, just the OS, so there goes that idea. Also, if you're negligent enough to ignore more experienced people telling that what you want to do is stupid, and why, do you really deserve a new system to screw up also?

            If you were my kid, I'd tell you to go buy your own new computer if you'd do stuff like this.

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              #7
              Re: password password and more passwords

              i was kidding i know it wont destroy my hdd... he just made it sound like it would
              no one I know know anything about linux so there i win

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