[wellylug] UBUNTU 5.10 Dapper. First experiences!

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Mon Nov 13 12:12:29 NZDT 2006


"Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd" <daniel at centurion.net.nz>
writes:
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 20:26 +0100, Gerald Roehrbein wrote:
>
>> But: I hate that there is no root account active and I always have to
>> sudo. I'm not sure about changing this. It looks like a well thought
>> security feature. Because anybody knows there is a "root" user at a UNIX
>> system but do you know the name of the superuser of an UBUNTU system?
>> Okay this look like security by obscurity. But probably it helps!
> 
> gust do: sudo passwd root
>
> and enter a root password, and it will work then.

It will, although a better option is normally to use 'sudo -s' to give
you a superuser shell to work in.

Regards,
        Daniel
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