Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

On Thursday 30 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/30/07 14:37, Hal Vaughan wrote:
[snip]

While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics,
there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as
a root account on any Debian release. The only difference is it
doesn't have a password on setup.

You've GOT to be kidding... Right? Please?

On Debian you enter the root pw at setup. You don't on Ubuntu, but when
I setup a new Ubuntu system, all I do is create a root password w/ sudo
and from then on it works like any other system with a root account.

Is that so surprising, or did I miss something?

Hal


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