how to log in as root on desktop

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
I don't have any problem with that.
> 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.
Hmm I can not comment on this one but since you said there might be
some danger in that so I wanted to understand and mentioned what I
usually would be doing.
> Al.
>
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