Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian
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Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:17 -0400
> Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 08/30/07 14:37, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics,
>>>> there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as
>>>> a root account on any Debian release. The only difference is it
>>>> doesn't have a password on setup.
>>> You've GOT to be kidding... Right? Please?
>> On Debian you enter the root pw at setup. You don't on Ubuntu, but when
>> I setup a new Ubuntu system, all I do is create a root password w/ sudo
>> and from then on it works like any other system with a root account.
>>
>> Is that so surprising, or did I miss something?
>
> I think that Ron understands that the root account on Ubuntu is
> accessible by anyone without entering a password; I seem to recall
> (from posts to this list) that actually no one can access the Ubuntu
> root account until a password has been set for it.
Not being able to access an account without a password is default even
for Debian, AFAIK. I have done this once, deleting the password hash
from an account in /etc/shadow, and then trying to login with that user.
Couldn't find a way, and actually used it as some form of security. This
is probably what happens in Ubuntu, too.
Considering that the user has full sudo access and that the root account
actually exists, it should be no surprise that a 'sudo passwd root'
would give the user login access to the root account.
>> Hal
>
> Celejar
Cassiano
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