Ubuntu user's report

[Rick Bowers]

At 03:28 AM 12/18/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All, sorry for the length. If you're not interested in checking out a
>new distro you might want to forgo this email.

>%< snip >%

>At no time are you asked to enter a root password, by default the first
>user created is added to the sudoers list. Now, I *did* have my
>reservations about this idea but I do (sort of) understand their
>reasoning. I also know how to type 'sudo passwd root' in order to
>circumvent that idea (I believe that's all that's needed) but I've
>pretty much gotten used to just typing sudo before any commands that
>require root privileges - this is after all not a mission critical
>system.

I just got the Ubuntu disks I ordered in October, and found the same thing 
-- the install process never asks to enter a root password.
I've never used the sudo command before (new to linux) but I assume :-( 
it's the same as 'su''? When I type "sudo root" I'm prompted for root's 
password.  I tried <enter> but it fails.  Does anyone know what the default 
is set to?


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