On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Alan Porter wrote: > I'm like you, I can't stand it. So the first thing I do on a > Ubuntu system is "sudo bash" and then "passwd root". Then it'll > be just like what you were expecting, more like Debian, Red Hat, > etc.
The Debian installer accepts a blank root password as indication that the user wants to use sudo (which is the setting that Ubuntu uses) and disables the root account. You could always choose "go back" and enter a password during the install (be it the express or the expert mode). -- Daniel T. Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc
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