On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote:

> In what sense is root not an interactive account on Ubuntu?   The
> shell entry for
> ​ ​
> root is an interactive shell.   Ubuntu simply doesn't give root a password
> which
> ​ ​
> can be used to login and makes sure that a non-root user name can sudo
> ​ ​
> to root.
>

​Correct.  'root' can not log in.

I have been one-upped on pedantry, point to Bill B. ​



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