On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:29 PM, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Michael Dorrington wrote:
On 05/01/13 21:54, James Freer wrote:
<snip> > > That's the iso i used and seemed to be ok installed. But i can't exit > root; from either using the root terminal or synaptic... apart from > reboot.
Not sure what you mean.
Mike i don't know whether it's this CD or what but once one has signed in as root (or used synaptic) exit won't close it.
james
I've found out what the problem is now. I can't believe it. When one goes into synaptic you get "enter the administrative password" and below one has the buttons 'Save for this session' and 'save in the keyring'. Save for this session is SET BY DEFAULT... why on earth! ubuntu doesn't have those buttons - it's just enter password.
I can't think why anyone would want to save the password and have root privilege set for a session. Idea of root is when admin is required one does the admin and then exits returning to user status. Debian's got an entry in 'my black book'.
james