no root passwd debian

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, James Knott wrote:

> IIRC, with Ubuntu, the first user is a superuser, but not root, that has
> permissions to do admin stuff, including set the root password.

Hi all.  Ubuntu has a root a/c just like any other Linux distro using the 
standard security model (ie, excluding SELinux).  Ubuntu just locks 
password access to root by default.  Ubuntu users are encouaged to use 
sudo for sysadmin tasks.

I set a root password on Ubuntu as a matter of course (especially after 
6.06 had a bug in sudo which prevented it from working in a semi-random 
fashion).  I still use sudo mostly but actually having a root password can 
be very important in a crunch.  I disable password authentication for ssh 
for any box that will be accessible from the public Internet.

Cheers,

Rob

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