default root pwd for base system install?

[Carroll Grigsby]

Lonn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just loaded 5.10 and expected the root pwd to be nul until set the first
> time. Wrong!!
> 
> Can someone help me out. Reply direct if you do not want to make an
> international issue out of the default pwd for root on initial install.
> 
> Lonn



Lonn:

Ubuntu does it differently than other distros. The first user is given 
root access using sudo and his password. Here's the explanation:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

(There was a very long thread about this last month. Sorry, I don't 
remember the subject heading, but it's in the list archives.)

-- cmg