Question about root

[Jeremy]

Okay, that's it. But is there a way to "re-enable" root so the system fells 
more like home? i.e so that I enter root's password rather then my own when 
prompted?

Jeremy

On Thursday 23 September 2004 03:51 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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)
>
> --
>  - mdz

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