On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote:

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> Some youngsters I know thought they were getting into linux with Ubuntu,
> and when they needed to fix something we couldn't even log in as root.
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By design.  Logging in directly as root is disabled on most modern distros
these days.  The BKM is to configure a local user with sudo access.

Unless you were implying you couldn't even use sudo?

-Rob
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