no root account ubuntu?

[Gary Layng]

I must be a little old-fashioned, or just a little old-fashioned paranoid.  I 
prefer having a Root password, notably different from my ordinary user 
password.

On Friday 30 July 2010 17:33:12 you wrote:
> On 2010-07-30, at 17:23, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I had a tech install the latest ubuntu on my computer. He swears he
> > was never asked for a password for root. It only asked that he
> > create one account. The password for that account does not work for
> > root (say, using su). Is there a default password for root? Does
> > root not exist?
> 
> Not odd...
> 
> On my laptop, there was no password set for root - instead,  the human
> user was given privileges to use sudo to access the root account.
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