[nylug-talk] Ubuntu

[Peter C. Norton]

Steve,

You're being a Jerk (capital J) in this thread. At the same time,
you're using fuzzy technically and hand-waving to an unacceptable
degree.

Please stop posting on this thread.

-Peter

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:46:27PM +0000, sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> Is whining a skill I need to use Ubuntu?
> 
> Steve M
> 
> On 6/30/06, Joshua Kaplan <gotd0t at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Is it so hard to do
> >
> >"sudo passwd" after installing Ubuntu?
> >
> >On 6/30/06, sixtyfourbeets <sixtyfourbeets at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Not having a password so it cant be guessed is a poor reason to lock out
> >the
> >> root user account to the owner of the machine.  MS machines dont have
> >root
> >> user accounts or passwords that need to be guessed and they are still
> >> insecure.
> >>
> >> Steve M
> >>
> >> On 6/30/06, mike at jurney.org <mike at jurney.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Or, even better:
> >> >
> >> > sudo su -
> >> >
> >> > That way you can be root for a while without setting a password for
> >the
> >> > account; If there's no password, the password can't be guessed.
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Robert Russo wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > yes but by default you dont have the password for root.  The concept
> >> > > with ubuntu is you execute all the root commands using sudo.
> >> > >
> >> > > Alternatively if you wanted to be able to login as root you could
> >> > execute:
> >> > >
> >> > > sudo passwd root
> >> > >
> >> > > and then set the root password so you can login as root.
> >> > >
> >> > > Rob
> >> > >
> >> > > sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> >> > > > Does Ubuntu have 'root'?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Steve M
> >> > > >
> >> >
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