Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:24:22PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:32 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > I'm probably fairly happy for the reasons that
> > Ubuntu makes it the *default* but there are setups and situations
> > where it isn't the best approach and I think Ubuntu should make it
> > easier to use a real root account.
> 
> How much easier than "passwd -l root" does it have to be? :)
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Enabling%20the%20root%
> 20account>
> 
Yes, it's easy enough to do (I have root on my dekstop machine and a
backup machine) but it does break a couple of things.  Look back for a
thread about running services-admin when there's a root account - it's
difficult. 

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Chris Green