Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD...

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:16:45AM -0400 I heard the voice of
David Stanford, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> The root user is there, it's just somewhat "hidden". I personally hate
> having to type sudo for every command requiring root privileges, so I always
> just set the root password and then su into root:
> 
> # sudo passwd root
> <enter new pass>
> # su - root

Or you could just "sudo tcsh".

I use sudo everywhere, and have for years.  I've forgotten the root
passwords set on most machines.  Makes it a lot easier, especially
with multiple people.


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