In the last episode, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: BS> BS> Personally, I use Kubuntu on my laptop and have never had a reason to BS> change root's password from the default. Even on my Gentoo desktop, I use BS> sudo (and my user password) 100x more often than su/login and the root BS> password. BS> BS> The choice to not ask for root's password during installation was amde for BS> good reason. One less question makes the installation easier and faster, BS> and providing the randomized password + sudo access increases or at least BS> does not decrease security afforded by the "old" Debian way (which ends up BS> prompting for two passwords; each twice). BS>
It is also possible to use sudo by passing it the root password - I myself do this, and it is more secure. Jeff -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Phillips Feynman, American physicist, 11/5/18-15/2/88 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
