Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Ubuntu: Use root password instead default user password

After clean install of Ubuntu, you noticed u have to enter your user password to do administrative or system tasks. This is the way to change it.
First make sure u set password for the 'root' user:
sudo passwd root

Use your favorite text editor and edit '/usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_libgksu' file.
Change:
/apps/gksu/sudo-mode true

to:
/apps/gksu/sudo-mode false

Then issue following command:
sudo update-gconf-defaults

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