root password

[Ignazio Palmisano]

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)
> 

Not sure, but since in order to make the root password = "" you go into 
a file and delete every char (I believe the name of the file is 
/etc/shadowsomething ?), you could go there and type any char in the 
same place; it's an encrypted file, so a clear password would correspond 
to a password impossible to type :)

This page suggests a method similar to this, plus more:
http://linuxgazette.net/issue32/tag_accounts.html
HTH,
I.