set up a root password

[Derek Broughton]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> OTOH, that shell with root priv's should somehow make itself marked as
> such by a border color change or something, as when popping around to the
> various terminal shells running, it would be too easy to hit the wrong but
> root shell and mess the whole thing up.

Can you imagine a way to do this?  It's a good idea, but I don't know if it
could be done.

> I could log into.  But its a one way street, because the only way to undo
> it
> seems to be a re-install.  Which I did on that box.

Just lock the root account.  "sudo passwd -l root".  "root" already exists
on any Linux system, so this is how its implemented in Ubuntu.
-- 
derek