Ubuntu stole my FreeBSD...

[David Stanford]

On 4/14/07, John Murphy <freebsd001 at freeode.co.uk> wrote:

> The installation was successful, but it seems odd to not have a root
> user.


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

-David
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