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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:26:41 +0200
From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> That makes no sense.  "sudo" means "run as root".  If you're already
> root, there's no need for sudo, and most systems don't even allow root
> to run the sudo command.

I do not mean that 'root' need 'sudo'.

> It sounds to me like your Fedora

I do not have Fedora but Kubuntu (8.04 and 9.04). On Kubuntu the user 
created in the installation step, say 'pippo', is also 'root' in the 
sense that 'pippo' needs 'sudo' (or 'sudo su') for administrative usage.


Cheers,
Angelo.

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