I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user
Al Gordon
runlevel7 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 18:51:46 UTC 2005
On 8/4/05, Tim Holmes <tholmes at mcaschool.net> wrote:
> Its not so much difficult, as it is STUPID. I like Ubuntu, I use
> Ubuntu, but I tell you what, that one thing (lack of easy normal root
> access) nearly cost the distro a user, that has to be the most inane
> idea in the entirety of the unix/linux world. I use linux to make things
> easier, not harder, and having to type extra commands to do my normal
> administrator work is NOT what I call easier -- it annoying, clunky and
> a generally BAD idea.
I love it when teachers rant and call things stupid.
This sudo vs. root thing is really fun to read about every day, but
maybe there should be a big red page in the installer that says "The
root account is disabled by default - We use sudo instead." Maybe
then, when people are informed of such an apparently radical change
and don't have to learn about it the hard way, we can stop discussing
it on this list.
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