that darned ROOT problem

[Bo Grimes]

Janne Jokitalo wrote:

>Bo Grimes wrote:
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>>is a poor substitute for education about the purpose for and
>>uses of root.
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>Not solely so. Without root password, you at least get away with random
>attacks that try common usernames with passwords like 'admin', 'password' or
>the like. You get the picture.
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So how does Ubuntu's way prevent that if this were the case?

>The average user joe might very well put something very simple for root's
>password, since there's then another thing to remember, and since everyone
>always warns not to use those yellow notes attached to monitor side, well... :)
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How is Ubuntu's way more secure if this were the case?

>So you see, it's not that simple. This is a well thought-out approach, and
>I'd wait a long while gathering experiences before go and change it due to
>few people disagreeing with it.
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The fact here is that Ubuntu is changing it from the standard practice 
for Linux distros, and I have 6 years and dozens of distos of experience.