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

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Aug 3 16:24:27 UTC 2005


Frank Hale wrote:

>> |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!

I agree - but you asked how many newbies hadn't set a root password, and I
think you'll find the newbies aren't the problem.  We old-timers are the
ones who insist on setting a root password :-)
-- 
derek





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