Re: [tlug] Accessing microphone

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:32:47PM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:12:27 +0900, Dave M G <martin@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> So, either run "su -" and enter your *root* password (not your regular
> user's password) and run the command, or log out, then log back in as
> root and do the necessary.

Ubuntu and some others don't let you have the root password (although I
think at one point, they goofed somewhere and it was available in plain
text.)  :)  They want you to do everything with sudo, though as Josh
pointed out this doesn't always work properly.



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Scott

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