The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:On 09/05/2026 18:35, rbowman wrote:Yes, that's how I've always thought of it on the Pi, it's a way to mekeOn Sat, 9 May 2026 09:24:32 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I wish they'd make this sort of change more explicit. It had me
confused for a while. I have loads of other Linux based systems and
I'm used to them requiring a password for sudo so I don't have an
issue with that. I just don't like things like this changing without
the change being noted somewhere.
The RPi confused me too. If I don't have to give a password for sudo,
why do I even have to type sudo? I like consistent and the Pi was the
odd man out.
I always assumed it was there (Pi's sudo) simply to avoid you doing
damage by accident, rather than to prevent others from using your login
to do damage.
sure you know that you have root privelege rather than s security thing.
iirc it was SuSE in the early 2000's that switched the wallpaper to bright
red with black cartoon-style bombs if you were running as root. Life was
simpler then -- every Linux and AIX box in our shop had the same root
password, wolf359.
Was Ubuntu the first distro that more or less bypassed setting up an
explicit root account?
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