About root

[Derek Broughton]

Reeyarn wrote:

> 2009/5/12 Bo Bertilsson <vaporware2000 at hotmail.com>
> 
>> I thought all you had to do was    sudo su
>> to get root priviligies.

It is.
> 
> You could run this just once on your terminal:
> sudo passwd root
> to set your password of the root user,
> 
> then with Pressing Cirl + Alt + F1 to turn to a real terminal and to login
> with your root account and password, sudo is now NOT the only one means to
> get root priviligies.

why would you suggest doing something like that to somebody who has 
expressed NO interest in creating a root account?  
-- 
derek