Root login

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:47, Scott Mazur wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:27:47 -0800, Vayu wrote
>
> > You can enable a root user, you can also use sudo as root, you can
> > usesudo as a user, where is the lack of choice?
>
> Enabling the root user requires giving it a password.  Which immediately
> breaks the user sudo.  Users continue to get popup password prompts, even
> though their user password no longer works with sudo. 

This is just incorrect.  I enabled the root user back when I used Warty, and I 
can still enter my user password when I want to use sudo -- which is most of 
the time.  Some programs just don't work with sudo: some firewalls and mondo 
come to mind as examples.
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