edit root alias when installing the OS

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:16 +1300, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
> 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.

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?