set up a root password

[Constantinos Maltezos]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 11:57:40 am Gordon Schulz wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:57, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > I respect your right to install a root password, I just
> > think it a very bad idea to tell newbies to do that as their first task -
> > and then laugh about how they might screw everything up if they aren't
> > careful.
>
> Signed. As one also pointing out in this thread how to set a root
> password - not that I'd tell new users to do that, but being able to
> properly su'ing into root makes doing extensive administrative tasks a
> lot easier than sudo'ing around.
> --
> Gordon.

Surely, you and all these "gurus" have heard of doing "sudo su", haven't you?  
It does the same thing without needing to give "root" a password.  Is it that 
hard to type?

If I wanted to get into people's systems and I knew they were running Linux, 
I'd have to thank everyone who gave "root" a password.  It'd make my job a 
hell of a lot easier.  Of course, I write this from a distro that gives "root" 
a password, but I'm seriously considering setting it up otherwise.  Don't know 
if it would cause problems or not, though.