I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user

Frank Hale frankhale1 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 14:45:25 UTC 2005


> |Why aren't more distro's adopting this?
> Unless I mistake, sudo can be used on all Unix type systems.

Not what I meant. I mean why aren't more distro's adopting the
mentality to disable the root account and force sudo usage by default.
Since I am new to Ubuntu I totally ignored this and set the root
password because that's what I've been doing since 1997... =) Old
habits die hard!




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