Vote for new Ubuntu Feature

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Ghostmaster wrote:

> I am not Linux illiterate, I have used Mandrake 8.2 and 9.1 for about
> three years on my old box.  In Mandrake you just add the root to the
> list of login users in the control panel. Root would show up on login
> then.  I take it that Ubuntu doesn't have this feature?

Yes, but it's almost never necessary and generally considered a bad
practice. Most users will never need a root account that can be
directly logged into at all. The default is to set roots password to
'*' in /etc/shadow and it should be left that way if possible, because
at least with earlier versions of some distributions even enabling and
disabling root login temporarily can cause serious problems.

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