root password setting unoffered at install

[bill purvis]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:47:49 +0000
>
> bill purvis <bil at beeb.net> wrote:
> > 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, did you read my other posts to this thread? That is pretty much
> exactly what I am saying. My question to Gilles was aimed at trying to
> clarify what he meant. He has now done so, and I am in general agreement
> with his points.
>
> Or did you reply to the wrong person ?
>
Probably! :-)

I just felt it ought to be said somewhere.

Your point in the previous message:

> I thought long threads about sudo vs. root were a thing of the past on the
> Ubuntu list, but evidently I was wrong!
>
> *sigh*
some of us have only just woken up the joys of Ubuntu and missed that 
pleasure.

Bill
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