root password setting unoffered at install

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:02:30 -0500
Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> I'm quite nervous about the default
> > being left in place, so any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I don't know that there is a default. Your user account should be in
> the sudoers group, which gives you the ability to do 'sudo passwd
> root'. 

Which is unnecessary and deprecated in Ubuntu :)

See 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

for a discussion of the pros and cons...

Peter

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