root password

[Mike Bird]

On Sat June 28 2008 15:03:49 Ulrich Grün wrote:
> Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2008 23:53:57 schrieb Richard S. Crawford:
> > I find that every root-level command I've
> > needed to do I could do with sudo; occasionally I would drop into an
> > interactive sudo shell with sudo -i, but I can count on one hand the
> > number of times I've had to do that.
>
> <<sudo -i>> It's a good alternative for using a root password.
> By the way: does anybody know how to disable a root password, once it has
> been enabled? (i.e. work the other way round, to not have a root password
> when one has it)

Use "passwd -d" permanently, or "passwd -l" temporarily.  "-u" reverses "-l".

--Mike Bird