online article: "Ubuntu: Getting Back to Linux Basics"

Shawn McMahon smcmahon at eiv.com
Thu Mar 9 13:17:31 GMT 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:39:09PM +0200, Duncan Anderson said:
> 
> If it took him "countless hours" to work out how to assign a root password in 
> Ubuntu, what's he doing reviewing Linux distributions?

Yeah, this sounds fishy to me.  If someone has sufficient UNIX/Linux
knowledge to know what a root password is, he darn well knows exactly
how to set one.


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