How to Disable Root?

[Dave Miller]

Brett Kirksey wrote:
> As mentioned in a previous post, I was forced to enable root in order to 
> get Webmin installed. How to I get root disabled now? In OS X, there is 
> just an option to do this and I believe it accomplishes this by giving 
> root an ivalid password.
> 
> Anyway, how do you disable root in Ubuntu?

$ sudo passwd -l root

The "-l" is "lock user account"
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  - justdave