Re: edit root alias when installing the OS

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Callum Lerwick wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:16 +1300, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
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> > This is nothing new, many distros have been doing this for a long
> > time. disabling the root account or disabling root login via gdm/kdm.
> >    
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> This doesn't work with usermode for one, it depends on the root password
> near as I can tell. Its also a problem if say fsck fails during boot and
> you're dropped to a single user shell. You're prompted for the root
> password. How does Ubuntu handle that one?
>
>  
They patch it. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo