sudo and /etc/sudoers

Koh Choon Lin sgfreedom at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 20:01:49 UTC 2008


>>> Which major distribution doesn't have this sudo system on by default?
>>> I remembered Fedora being of them or has that been changed?
>>
>> IIRC, Debian.
>
> Not unless they backed out of it since Ubuntu came along.  I was using sudo
> back then.  He didn't ask "which major distribution doesn't enable root".

Interestingly, one has to reset the root password to login as root.
Thus, does Ubuntu maintains the same root password for all installed
systems? I had always been assuming the root password is different for
each Ubuntu system and no one knows them.



Koh Choon Lin




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