Administrative Tasks

[Dean Sas]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Dougie Richardson
<ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:
>  The "Using sudo at the command line" section says: "To use a root
>  terminal, type sudo -i at the command line.". Ubuntu was designed not to
>  utilise the Root account by default and as this information is in the
>  Wiki (linked to from the first page of this section) I think it should
>  be removed.

Wasn't the point of having a locked root password by default so that
the users don't have to remember two passwords? I don't really see the
problem with this.

sudo -s may be more to users expectations anyway.

Dean