[Xastir] Loading Maps on Xubuntu - Xastir-Hardy_090307

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:55:39PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <nwsnowboarder at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
> I am attempting to install the maps for Washington and Oregon in Xubuntu 
> and I can't copy them into the map folder because the permissions are 
> not correct to allow read/write access.
> 
> The owner is root
> 
> Anyone know the password? Yea I tried root

Login to the root account is typically disabled on ubuntu systems.  All
the stuff you'd do by "su root" or logging in as root is instead done with
"sudo" (e.g. "sudo cp file1.shp /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/junk/").

The Xastir-Hardy virtual machine is set up that way, with the "xubuntu" user
as one of the allowed "sudoers."

Sudo prompts you for a password.  The password is the one for the xubuntu 
account.

See "man sudo" for details.

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