how to remove root user and go back to sudo-only

[Ben Edwards]

http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/RootSudo

Ben

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:55:40 -0400, David Williamson
<nospam1 at nullcutter.com> wrote:
> I added a root user after initial install, because that's what I'm used
> to.  If I want to kill it and go back to sudo-only with no root, how do
> I do it?
> 
> I can tell you this - don't do it this way!  Don't think you can
> edit /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, delete the root entries (backing up
> the original shadow and passwd files just in case), and log out and
> back.  sudo and su won't work anymore :-)  <doh!>  Good think I had a
> knoppix disk to make things right.
> 
> So, evidently there normally IS a root user, even though he's not used
> the same way as some of us are used to?  And how would I go back to the
> default ubuntu behaviour?
> 
> TIA -
> 
> david williamson
> 
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