After reading the support threads I am baffled

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Yeah I would have to agree as well I have not needed root access.  I'm
from a Fedora background where I used root a fair bit.  I haven't needed
root at all since I've switched.  Granted I'm getting annoyed at having
to type sudo all the time.  However I get used to it after awhile so I'm
learning the 'ubuntu' way of doing things.

Marc

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 12:18 +0200, Arjan Geven wrote:
> On 8/3/05, James <infohwyman at cox.net> wrote:
> > Does it not occur to anyone at UBUNTU that no root user causes us to not
> > be able to get into a logged in prompt where we can type sudo -s?
> > I cannot find anywhere, one shred of why this has not been addressed.  I
> > tried the sudo -s from a live boot after installing it, and of course
> > that did not work because it is in a different session that I made my
> > changes.  Does anyone have a reasonable answer why this Linux for the
> > people is harder than any other to get into?
> > 
> > James
> 
> I've no idea what you're talking about? I've never needed a
> root-account at all, and am not missing it. You can just log in with
> your username/password and type $sudo anything to perform what you
> want to do as root. Or, if I remember correctly, if you boot into
> 'Safe Mode' you automagically get root-access.
> 
> Arjan.
> 
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