On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:30:37 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
There *has* to be a root account. By default there is no root
password unless you set one during the installation. I think there
has been talk of removing that option from the installer. All you
have to do is "sudo passwd" to set the root password and then you can
directly use the root account again if you want.
Thanks for the info. Does there have to be a home directory for
the obligatory root account? The tone of the discussions I read was
that root user was an anachronism, and linux would be better without
it. That's only my interpretation, of course, so it could be wrong.