<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2006-25-01 at 21:20 -0600, Richard Dennis Colbert Jr wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Let me ask you a question. Have you ever installed Windows 3.1, 3.51, NT4, 2000, or XP and had it ask you for the default password (for Administrator) or had it tell you that you needed to SET THE PASSWORD? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> No. It instead makes your account an administrator account. The administration Just Works<tm> as a result. Someone asking, however, about a root account on a UNIX-like system is obviously familiar with the UNIX model of doing things. Ubuntu is different from every other fucking operating system in existence in that it doesn't have a specialised adminstrator account (or at least attached privs) and instead has a special command to access administration privileges. When you are different from anybody else -- in this case neither providing the default user with root privs (like most non-UNIX OSes) and not providing a root account (like most UNIX-alikes) -- you should fucking document your differences! This especially if you go off touting how fucking simple to use your operating system is compared to Those Other People's<tm>. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I didn't fucking think so, now move on already! </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> How about you do me the honour of just fucking off? <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>