I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user

[Derek Broughton]

Michael J. Lynch wrote:

> Tim Holmes wrote:
>> 
>> If the user has the root password, he/she should have enough smarts to
>> not go screwing stuff up.  If the person does not need the root
>> password, don't give it to them, but don't cripple the distro for the
>> rest of us -- Setting the root password is the first thing I do on a new
>> Ubuntu install
>> 
> 
> I take it a step further (for machines for which I'm not worried
> about security), I make the root account not only passwordless but
> I also make *pam* allow root login with no password via TELNET and
> SSH.

I suspect I smell a troll...  but please describe this hypothetical machine. 
It can't run any servers.  It can't have any compilers.  It better not hold
any personal data.  What do you do with it?
-- 
derek