[RESOLVED] What are the arguments for and against enabling the root user on Kubuntu

[TwoFistedJustice]

I have a single user system. So the root password is MY password. I was thinking of changing the root password for better security.

What are the arguments for and against doing this?

[Snowhog]

What’s the point? The root account is disabled by default. It won’t have a password until it is enabled and one is set.

[jglen490]

I have a single user system. So the root password is MY password. I was thinking of changing the root password for better security.

What are the arguments for and against doing this?

Actually, your password is not root's password. You use your normal user's password to temporarily activate certain elevated privileges via sudo. As Snowhog stated, root is disabled by default.

[claydoh]

There is more than one user on Linux systems, actually

https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...inux-on-ubuntu

As to sudo:

https://opensource.com/article/22/5/use-sudo-linux

https://wiki.debian.org/sudo


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo



To add to these, the entire OS is set up around using sudo. Why break that?

Don't forget quite a lot of us have asked the same thing over a few decades now, and even been skeptical about it, including me, back in 2004-2005.

One thing I'll say is that since the widespread use of sudo, the number of folks effing their systems by doing something stupid or accidental dropped by more than 99% in my experience.

Of course one is perfectly free to do things the way they want to.