password password and more passwords

[marine63]

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

[jankushka]

Re: password password and more passwords

is there a way to stop kubuntu stop asking for passwords?

yes, there is.

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

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

[Snowhog]

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!

[marine63]

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

[penguin.ch]

Re: password password and more passwords

can destroy your own system

Trust me: not only she can, but surely she will :P

[DeathKitten]

Re: password password and more passwords

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.

[marine63]

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