Comments on: Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu

By: mudfly

mudfly — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:26:01 +0000

in regards to disabling the root account, which I am a fan of, you can still use sudo su - to switch to the root account, when needed.

By: Bharath Ram

Bharath Ram — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:45:54 +0000

vry useful info dude…………… for newbies of ubuntu out there…………

By: PICCORO

PICCORO — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:37:06 +0000

uff, sudo command has no users added in debian brands.. so this article is invalid, and only works in win-buntu…

the file /etc/sudoers in debian, does not have entries for nobody, therefore no user is able to run the command sudo .. so, this does not allow him to make changes

Subbu was right, u must use a real linux for future corrections in articles ¬_¬!

More Info for a real linux distro : McKAY Debian and linux issues (packages and howtos)

By: Kunal Gautam

Kunal Gautam — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:58:39 +0000

Man just learned how to enable and disable account and regarding sudoer file in my class

By: Sathya

Sathya — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:43:17 +0000

Subbu: Ubuntu was on my VM. Was just exploring it. Not the greatest fan of Ubuntu. I’m waiting for openSUSE 11, if it’s any good I’ll upgrade openSUSE 10.3 to 11. Else I’ll just shift to Debian or maybe even Gentoo.
Debian has root account enabled by default? Read it’s disabled :?

By: Subbu

Subbu — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:34:24 +0000

Dude.. Give Ubuntu a skip and try Debian.. (i.e. If you don’t mind Over-User-Friendliness and ‘teh cool effectz! *squeal!!1!!11\!’*)

Reason being it’s much more stable.

And Um.. FYI, Debian HAS Root Account.. You can disable it by installing sudo. (Nope.. Not Installed by default)