no root account ubuntu?

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Gary Layng <glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

That's fine, and you can certainly set things up that way.

It seems to me that the default Ubuntu setup is fairly reasonable - it
doesn't force a proliferation of authentication information ("I'm not
sure why *I* need a user account - what's this 'root' thing, and why
does it have to have another password?  Does the password need to be
the same?  Or different???")
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