New User.

Alan Swartz kde at swartzes.com
Mon Aug 8 12:31:57 UTC 2005


Sean Miller wrote:
> squareyes wrote:
> 
>>> This is a VERY common question, and if you did a quick search through
>>> the wiki or FAQ you'd find the answer..
>>> Ubuntu uses "sudo" instead of root.
>>> the password is the password you entered for your user.
>>> There IS a way to activate the root password but try doing the sudo
>>> way for a while.. you'll get used to it quickly.
>>
>>
> Personally my view is that not having a root password set initially is
> bad news, but understand why Ubuntu does it.
> 
> I did set my own root password - and this was for a very important
> reason. A few years back when working on hp-ux we had a problem where
> our /etc/sudoers file became corrupted and nobody but root could run
> some commands. I dread to think what would have happened had we had no
> root password - how would we have fixed it?
> 
> I work on the basis that you set your root password using "sudo passwd"
> (as you will find instructions in the wiki), note it down somewhere and
> then don't use it unless you have to.  Thus you gain all the protection
> of not logging in directly as root but know that you can if you need to
> from a command line or wherever...
> 
> As I said in another thread I think that the Ubuntu sudo has *too* much
> power. There should be some things that you can only do when logged in
> as root... but that's just my view...
> 
> Sean
> 
You could fix it the same way you would fix a corrupted passwd file --
reboot into single mode and fix the file.





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