No root in Kubuntu was Re: new to Kubuntu

[Justin Denick]

No root account!
What good would that do. Ridiculous.
I can see not giving somebody root access, but not having root access to
give would be like cutting off your thumbs. Go Debian :-(

http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/

On 10/31/06, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> 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
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