Help with installation
Sasha Tsykin
stsykin at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 14:07:07 UTC 2006
Mateusz Kijowski wrote:
>> There is no su in Ubuntu.
>>
>
> This is *not* true.
>
> $ dpkg -L login | grep bin/su
> /bin/su
>
> Also, doing su <username> works as expected.
>
>
su exists in ubuntu, but is not enabled by default. this means that
unless you activate it, you can not use the su account. Instead you use
the sudo command which emulates the su account. The su account can be
activated by setting a root password.
Sasha
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