A little help please!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 16:21 -0600, debiani386 wrote:
> 3) the only time that you will need to use ROOT for anything is when 
> your installing software. 

This is correct as far as it goes, if slightly misleading in the context
of Ubuntu, see below.

> Ubuntu will prompt you for the ROOT (or admin) password. If you are
> the only user of the computer, your password should work just fine. 

In fact, the password for the "root" account, and therefore the ability
to log in as the "root" user is disabled in Ubuntu. When Ubuntu prompts
for a password, it asks for the user's password, provided that the user
is in the admin group.

Details are here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

> It is not recommended that you use ROOT for day-to-day usage as you
> can do catastrophic damage to your ubuntu.

You are right in principle, but since logging into the root account is
impossible by default anyway, there is little danger here. 
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