edit root alias when installing the OS

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 20:30:34 UTC 2006


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?
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They patch it. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo




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