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

Paul O'Malley ompaul at eircom.net
Thu Aug 4 20:06:30 UTC 2005


Michael J. Lynch wrote:

>
> I beg to differ.  I've been admistrating *NIX systems for over 25
> years.  SUDO is a fairly recent addition.  I'm not saying its a
> good thing or a bad thing, just that I'm more used to using an
> actually root account because it was that way loooooooong before
> sudo came along.
>
Hiya Michael,

I understand your point, I bet if you were to use it for a month on just
one machine, you would think, good thing, and maybe change to using it
full time. After all it is only too more letters than su -c.

Regards,

Paul O'Malley





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