Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcV2hhdA==?= a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use =?UTF-8?B?aXTigJ0=?= Date: 23 Jan 2026 05:55:17 GMT Lines: 25 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZoNneLXB+6vV5Mq7Cpm1iAbSVLORXr91WpALvMWHYFIyYfeMWU Cancel-Lock: sha1:N5UhajdWh2W02qWH84amIoPbQLY= sha256:5mu5wXtL5DGYlb7bafcAt7UPKF1R0COnNNXz3o2fk5g= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81531 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.