After reading the support threads I am baffled

[dipankar das]

Yes, this gives you the good things of both the systems. And it can be
done the gui way too, by going to the 'users and groups' and then,
'show all users' and assigning a password for 'root'.

On 8/4/05, Alan Swartz <kde at swartzes.com> wrote:
> James wrote:
> > Does it not occur to anyone at UBUNTU that no root user causes us to not
> > be able to get into a logged in prompt where we can type sudo -s?
> > I cannot find anywhere, one shred of why this has not been addressed.  I
> > tried the sudo -s from a live boot after installing it, and of course
> > that did not work because it is in a different session that I made my
> > changes.  Does anyone have a reasonable answer why this Linux for the
> > people is harder than any other to get into?
> >
> > James
> >
> I guess if you really want a root account try...
> sudo passwd root
> 
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