root password?

[Derek Broughton]

Pete Clapham wrote:

> The root account /is/ enabled, but it isn't given a password, so you
> can't access it directly.  What you have to do is to sudo passwd root
> and enter a password.  Since you've zapped your sudoers file, you
> probably can't do that.  Personally, I much prefer to do a su and know
> I'm a superuser 

The point is, that you'd be pretty much unique if, having done "su"
you "knew" you were a superuser.  People do that, and then forget...
-- 
derek