Root password???

[Dick Davies]

On 14/04/06, gpeck157 <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote>


> "Secret" is your term. The root account is locked on install, therefor
> hidden to the user, unavailable, but you can unlock it by giving it a
> new password. I think we're arguing semantics here.

That isn't what you've been saying.

 I say "hidden", or
> "locked" you say secret. You say, or Dick did, that there is no root
> password, and again, that is not the case. The wiki does not say there
> is no root password as Dick claims. It says "...the password for root
> is locked in Ubuntu."

I'm not 'claiming', I'm trying to explain to you how UNIX has worked for the
last 30-odd years.

Sorry, Glen, you are just wrong here.
I don't think you understand what locked means in the context of a UNIX
account.

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