[geeks] While I'm at it, another Ubunut grouse

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Thu Jun 11 01:30:04 CDT 2009


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:12:00 -0400
hike <mh1272 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the root account on ubuntu can be enabled.
> i googled this and found it years ago.
> it is easy to do.
Sure. This was first what I did when I rebooted the machine in "single
user" mode. The point is: It is disabled by default. If you don't
explicitely enable it beforehand, you are fsck(8)ed up if somthing
fails.
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       Jochen

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