You can enable root in Ubuntu with about two commands but I have been
arguing in the other direction that besides root, user and superuser,
there needs to be a fourth level of things that you can't touch,
period!!! If you don't like them, you have to reinstall. This would
prevent new users from shooting themselves in the foot by deleting
crucial code. They wouldn't be able to touch things like the kernel and
x windows. Authorization to update might have to come from the update
itself somehow.
On 12-11-13 11:42 AM, Michael Muller wrote:
Jack Chastain wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
On Ubuntu users are expected to run root-level scripts/programs via sudo,
and
not use su *because there's no root account* -- while it's parent Debian
tends
to focus on using su more often than sudo. There are arguments as to
which is
"more secure", and I haven't seen a definitive conclusion on that.
I am really just learning the Ubuntu ropes, but I wondered about that -
particularly since I actually did su to root when playing around with the
original post:
jack@Dell-Dimension:~$ cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
jack@Dell-Dimension:~$ su -
Password:
root@Dell-Dimension:~# pwd
/root
root@Dell-Dimension:~# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@Dell-Dimension:~#
Now - to be completely forthcoming, in order to do this I initially had to
issue "sudo passwd root" and set the root password, but Ubuntu does appear
to have a root UID. . Am I missing something here?
There is most definitely a root account, but the password is disabled by
default.
JC
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