I am missing something obvious, I am sure, but we are considering moving from RH to Ubuntu for some of our servers so I am building some test boxes with it. Although it does ask me for a user level ...

There was a time when, to use a computer, you merely turned it on and were greeted by a command prompt. Nowadays, most operating systems offer a security model with multiple users. Typically, the ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...