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I have ubuntu and to run a program I need to run it in the terminal
as a root.
When I type in su then my passwords it says
su: Authentication failure
fakeroot doesn’t work
Can someone help?

How do I reset the root password in Linux?

It is possible to boot a system and log on to the root account without knowing the root password as long as one has access to the console keyboard.
read more at this link http://www.helpero.com/Questions-and-ans…

i got linux red hat 9 ‘n’ i wanna install it by GUI.

change password root in run level (1) in linux without root password

i want to login into my linux server through telnet but it is giving me errors. but i can login using any other user not root. how can i enable this?

An accidental “rm *” or similar command could really ruin your day. When you are signed in as root the system treats you as if you are all-knowing and all-seeing. It won’t try to protect you from your own mistakes. Creating a different account that doesn’t have access to change or remove critical system files will still allow you enough power to do most everything you need to do without letting you shoot yourself in the foot quite so easily. Besides, you can always open up a new shell as root to do something quickly.

Take a look at these sites, they should be able to help you…http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-secur…http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8600

well,this is the problem ,using Fedora core 6 sometimes i need to mount one of my windows partition so that i can copy some files there and access them under windows(i have win and linux both on one harddrive),i mount that partition using su
command but when i try to copy files to newly created folder in (/mnt/win for example) it say that you can’t write on this partition,is there a way i can run a file browser program like Konqueror with root credentials so that i can copy my files
in a graphical environment,in the past that i used another distro (or maybe other version of fedora)that i can’t remember it’s name i could right click on the Konqueror icon and there was an option for running as other users but it seems that there is no such thing in current distro …
many thanks in advance

I want to use an alias for a hostname I log into often. But, I can’t edit the hosts file b/c it’s not my machine and I don’t have root. I can’t seem to find the answer on the web, but I’m sure it must be possible.
What can I do?