no root passwd debian

[David Payne]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:24:14AM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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

Before Ubuntu I thought one would be crazy not to have a 
root password.  After Ubuntu I find myself setting sudo up 
on almost every Linux install I have regardless of distro.

David
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