root password setting unoffered at install

[bill purvis]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:28:19 +0100
>
> Gilles Gravier <Gilles at Gravier.org> wrote:
> > Simplistic in the sense that by default, your administrative user has
> > ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS.
> >
> > In Ubuntu by default there the administrative roles (create users,
> > populate home directories, manage network, change peripherals, change
> > users passwords, and so many more) are simplistically merged into ONE
> > SINGLE ADMINISTRATIVE user.
>
> How is this more simplistic than having a single root user who by
> definition has all administrative rights?
>
sudo is cleverer than that - read the documentation and see that you]
can set up various groups of users with varying levels of privilege.

Bill
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