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   me@privacy.net to bad sector   
   Re: Why I switched to Debian - Ubuntu go   
   27 Dec 22 20:34:25   
   
   bad sector wrote:   
   > On 2022-12-26 12:08, Marco Moock wrote:   
   >> Am 25.12.2022 um 13:17:39 Uhr schrieb bad sector:   
   >>   
   >>> My UbuntuStudio install is on death-row also, one of   
   >>> the reasons being mandatory snaps, the other reason is   
   >>> that any distro that does not let me log in as (or su to)   
   >>> root is no longer one that I want to be associated with.   
   >>   
   >> You can log in as root, you only need to set a password for it.   
   >   
   > how do I do that beginning with sudo?  If I try I   
   > get a prompt to change my user pwd, not root.   
   >   
   >   
   sudo su root   
      
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