[K12OSN] Ubuntu question quick - Dave?

[musicman]

I've always found that running from  sudo was "good practice", and
root/su should be used as rarely as possible, adn I think they've
taken that line - although the merit's of it are not universally
accepted, I guess....it's probably a good way to be - I've thought of
it as linux showing windows "how it's done" - people have to
consciously move to sudo to do anything,
hence, security is watertight....
L.

On 4/22/05, Jim Kronebusch <jim at winonacotter.org> wrote:
> > looks like use a normal acct then sudo with no root pw unkess you
> > want to add one
> 
> Thanks Chuck.  I found out that if I run sudo passwd root with a standard
> account I can enable a root password and it works.
> 
> Musicman, I guess I don't really mind this being set this way.  It just throws
> you for a quick loop when you get started.  As long as it is made known it
> shouldn't be a problem.  But I guess I don't really get how the Ubuntu guys
> think this is added security, although I am sure they have their reasons.
> 
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