how to log in as root on desktop

[Alan Pope]

On 1 December 2010 07:13, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using root login su -
> from past 5 years I do not find any problem and never had any problems.
> So I am not able to understand what is wrong with that and why each
> time some one has to set a root password or use sudo each time.
>

I'm not after a debate/discussion about why we ship with sudo on by
default and no known root password. The fact is we do.

Whilst it's perfectly fine for individuals to do whatever they want to
their own machines I'd please ask you to respect that sudo is the 'way
we do it' and as such be careful of suggesting people just enable a
root account without at least linking to the RootSudo page so that
users can decide for themselves whether they want to go down that
road.

Al.