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I've been running Ubuntu since the second release. I've never had the need to log in as, or be, root.
by pan69 15y ago
I've been running Ubuntu since the second release. I've never had the need to log in as, or be, root.
- cyrilsebastian 15y agoYa! you are right you may not need a root password to perform all the tasks and at the time of installation of wny application it will ask for the root password which directly installs it. What I want to convey is that when you have logged into root then it does not always ask you for the root login password at the time of installation and can easy perform functions like init to shutdown or restart via CUI
- greyfade 15y agoWhy does this matter? If you're performing several commands with `sudo`, by default it will remember your password for several minutes. There really is no good reason to log in as root except in exigent circumstances. If you think you need a root login, you're probably doing something wrong. (And actually, `sudo -s` is not actually "logging in." It simply starts a shell as user 1 with a sanitized environment.)