8 Jun
2009
8 Jun
'09
10:14 a.m.
Hi Adam,
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
Andy Smith (andy(a)bitfolk.com) wrote:
Ubuntu says bad things might happen and hints that it's unsupported:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#root%20account
So I don't do it during the install process on Ubuntu installs.
I still do it on Ubuntu machines I administer, for the reasons
above.
Cheers,
Andy
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BTW this sort of failure mode (breaking sudo) is
something I dislike
about Ubuntu's stance of not having a root password. sudo will also
break if you screw up the permissions on /var or /var/run.
Any reason why you can't just run 'sudo passwd' straight after every
fresh install of Ubuntu? I'm 99% sure that's what I did (it's been a
while though).