[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[elroy]

Denise Bates wrote:

>
> At the risk of being accused of indulging in a "distro-war", I regard 
> the following shortcomings of Ubuntu as sufficient reason to reject it 
> for my own use:

> * The lack of a regular "root" account: Having to muck about with Sudo 
> is clumsy and too damn slow.


The first thing I do on a fresh Ubuntu install (currently using 6.06 
LTS) is 'sudo passwd root'.

Then just open a terminal when I need root access, and 'su root' :-)


Still don't (fully) understand the reason for sudo etc. :-)


Elroy.