On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:30:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > There *has* to be a root account. By default there is no root > password unless you set one during the installation. I think there > has been talk of removing that option from the installer. All you > have to do is "sudo passwd" to set the root password and then you can > directly use the root account again if you want. Thanks for the info. Does there have to be a home directory for the obligatory root account? The tone of the discussions I read was that root user was an anachronism, and linux would be better without it. That's only my interpretation, of course, so it could be wrong. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
