Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CWhat_a_Linux_root_user_can_do_-_and_8_ways?= =?UTF-8?Q?_you_should_absolutely_never_use_it=E2=80=9D?= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:37:49 +0100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <10koqeb$1i9u5$2@dont-email.me> <10kpar0$1nlc1$1@dont-email.me> <10kq97r$31q7d$1@news1.tnib.de> <10kroo0$2hv00$3@dont-email.me> <10ku1df$3b523$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net NI+xFD9f1PzUQdX20yofUglC8E1NOqUBqIdL4v4YYB9YJRmWzH X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gp6gwDBEf1h/Kofqm3GBpqdM9EA= sha256:J3ozKK2idG5CdG4ebgyNZ2XVfavFgLnf9oa7O9aEjQ4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81548 On 2026-01-23 06:55, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:30:39 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> I am fine with root and with user passwords and even machine > passwords. >> >> Well here is a little article written some time ago. >> Why PCLinuxOS Shuns sudo Use >> < https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201205/page11.html> > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/pclinuxos-used-to-be-great-for-linux- > newbies-but-not-anymore/ > > As I've mentioned before, I think Wallen is a hack, but so it goes. This > has piqued my curiosity though. How many current distros as you to set a > root password during the installation versus going the 'Ubuntu' route and > using sudo unless you go out of your way to create a root password and > activate the root account? > > I can su on the Arch box although I use sudo. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReduceInitialSetupRedundancy > > This talks about live installs of Fedora Workstation and not the spins but > by the time I installed the KDE spin the root password creation had been > dropped. openSUSE creates a root user with the same password as the first user, by default. You can click somewhere and use a different password. sudo works with the user password, at least for the 1st user. I have not tried a second user. [...] A second user can sudo to root with root's password. Tested on 16.0. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;