Question about root

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Thu Sep 23 20:51:37 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:22:56PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:

> On 23 Sep 2004 jeremy at fantasticfamily.net wrote:
> > When I click on Synaptic, for example, it prompts me for the roor
> > password,
> 
> It is asking for *your* password, not the root password.  The root account
> is disabled by default and the use of sudo encouraged.

(https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206)

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 - mdz




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