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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:21:10 +0100   
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   Sybren Stuvel wrote:   
   > ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.ubuntu.]   
   > SINNER enlightened us with:   
   >>> there is no root in ubuntu... isn't it?   
   >>   
   >> There is if you give root a password.   
   >   
   > Either way, there is a root user. Just because you can't log in as   
   > root with a password doesn't mean the account doesn't exist.   
   >   
   This account is disabled in Ubuntu by default.    
      
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