About root or administrative account

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/23/07, David B Teague <davidbteague at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Note that one chooses his advice by choosing his adviser. Nevertheless
> I'm asking this question here, in the hope of getting both sides of an
> issue that has bothered me since discovering *buntu.
>
> A pundit from TechRepublic made the following remark about the *buntu
> distributions:
> *
>
> *Question: How about a bad one [distribution]?*
> *
> This is easy, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu are bad distros,
> they killed security by disabling root account. Any distro with no
> system admin account is bad.

The issue has been hashed to death on this list many, many times. The
above is an extraordinarily ignorant comment on the subject. The sudo
approach is the modern one used in many Unixes, not just Ubuntu. Mac
OS X, for example, and (if I remember correctly) Solaris. I've seen a
few pages lately that explain the issue fairly well. See:

http://rixstep.com/2/20070320,00.shtml

or maybe:

http://del.icio.us/popular/sudo

For a whole bunch of recent information.

-Eamonn