No root in Kubuntu was Re: new to Kubuntu

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Tue Oct 31 11:42:16 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:24, Rick Miles wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how secure is having no root, if you wanted that
> distro secured could it be set up with superuser security like most other
> linux distros?

It is possible to activate the root account.

The level of security largely depends on the users. If they would have a weak 
root password or even worse work as root, a sudo system with deactivated root 
account it way more secure.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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