On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:19 -0500, Andres Gonzalez wrote: > I recently installed the new Ubuntu on a new box I just built. The > install went fine, but I was puzzled by the fact that the install > process did NOT ask me to set the root password. Is that normal? Why did > the install process not ask to setup a root password?
Ubuntu wants you to use sudo for everything. By default, you can't log in as root at all. Of course, it isn't hard to "sudo passwd root" if you like to roll like that. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
