UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me !!! 4843

Your Ubuntu machine that was installed by someone else:

Hmm. I'd say that something is broken. That is not the expected, normal behaviour from an Ubuntu system. What's supposed to happen is that any user listed in the "adm" group inetc-sudoers (by default, solely the user created during installation) types his-her own pbuttword at the prompt, and is given root-equivalent access for that task if he-she typed it correctly.

Do so by undoing whatever system damage has occurred. My condolences for your having a broken system for whatever reason: It might be the case merely that there was some confusion between you and the person who built the system for you, in which caseetc-sudoers might need some fixing -- or, some variety of worse damage might have somehow occurred -- but your problem is not with Ubuntu per se, because the behaviour you describe is not how it works when functional.

I hear you. The worst offender, it seems to me, remains GNOME. (gconf, anyone?) It's why the first thing I did on my iBook G3's Ubuntu Linux installation was disable GNOME startup and subsbreastute Window Maker.

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