Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 15 March 2014 11:33:50 Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
> > > password, is there some way I could have gained access as root?
> >
> > If you remember the root password, than I don't understand your
> > problem.
>
> My first instinct would be to suppose that he's disabled root
> logins.

Then, Tom, why has Richard got a root password for the system?  Surely 
Debian only gives you the chance to set a root password if you enable 
root?

Lisi