Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Regardless of whether or not you set a password, the first user you set up (or the only user if you only have one user on the machine) will be an sudo'er..it will probably just not prompt you for a password if one wasn't set.
If you set a password and then somehow set up autologin and then forgot the password then you'll need to do the boot in single user mode, remount / and change/set the root password dance probably.
That would be much easier in a proper version of Linux - this thing, which is more Windozy than Windows, with My This, and My That, and default to brash and 'orrid icons in a Windozy GUI - just starts, and presents a page of Internet, Work, learn, Play and Favourites.
I could do without practically everything on each of these - an do. Accordingly (at great expense) I've bought a vast tome of 'how to do it' command line and shell scripting, and despite Asus inisting that 'I may not' remove pre-installed programs, most of them are coming off...
About the only things I use are Firefox, Thunderbird, the Vodafone dongleything, wireless notworks, File Mangler and Open Office. I might use some of the other facilities, but I really can't think that I'll want to.
BTW is there something wrong with your clock..you seem to have replied to my message before I sent it :)
Auntie Sipation?
Better?