set up a root password

[Derek Broughton]

Constantinos Maltezos wrote:

> If I wanted to get into people's systems and I knew they were running
> Linux,
> I'd have to thank everyone who gave "root" a password.  It'd make my job a
> hell of a lot easier.  Of course, I write this from a distro that gives
> "root"
> a password, but I'm seriously considering setting it up otherwise.  Don't
> know if it would cause problems or not, though.

"Not".  Just "sudo passwd -l root" - root still exists, and processes can
still have root access, it just isn't possible to log in to the root
account.
-- 
derek