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

[Michael J. Lynch]

Tim Holmes wrote:
> 
> If the user has the root password, he/she should have enough smarts to
> not go screwing stuff up.  If the person does not need the root
> password, don't give it to them, but don't cripple the distro for the
> rest of us -- Setting the root password is the first thing I do on a new
> Ubuntu install
> 

I take it a step further (for machines for which I'm not worried
about security), I make the root account not only passwordless but
I also make *pam* allow root login with no password via TELNET and
SSH.

-- 
Michael J. Lynch

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