On 2018-07-04 21:40, gevisz wrote: > It is quite strange because, when I used Ubuntu, it had no root > account, and so, everybody was forced to use sudo to get root > privileges.
Of course there is a root account. It is just blocked by default from accepting logins. You can simply run "passwd root" (as root) to change that. Another way (and this is what I use now on gentoo) is ssh root@localhost. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
