Re: Mistake in user docs

[Phil Bull <philbull gmail com>]

Hi folks,

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 09:34 -0400, Michael Hill wrote:
> 2011/4/24 Mario Blättermann <mariobl freenet de>:
> 
> > As far as I know, Debian systems have a root password, at least the real
> > Debians. Only derivatives like Ubuntu don't use root passwords. Am I
> > right here?
> 
> Oops, I missed this in my recent patch.  (I've just re-installed
> Debian this weekend after a few years of using Ubuntu.)  Would it be
> accurate to say Debian does, but some of its derivatives don't, Ubuntu
> for example?

No need to overcomplicate things - we can just say "some distros don't
use a root password by default". Only mention which ones don't if it's
likely to be of importance to the user.

Thanks,

Phil