[SLL] sharing superuser account is always bad policy, right?

Bryan McLellan btm at loftninjas.org
Mon Feb 9 00:18:57 PST 2009


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Derek Simkowiak <dereks at realloc.net> wrote:
>   Ubuntu doesn't even have a root password, regardless of whether or not you
> have a network card.

Of course this is "by default" because it was decided that when
introducing new users to Linux it would be best to train them not to
use the root account. 'sudo passwd' does the usual magic.


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