Question for the panel

dougs feels that Ubuntu's no-root-user model is irksome. I can certainly see his point. He feels that, even if it's a useful move for a workstation, for servers, this is an inappropriate setup. He suggests that we tell people to simply give root a useful password and use that.

I'm aware of some of the arguments against - for example, if you're good and dutiful and always use the sudo command, and don't do that naughty "sudo -s" and simply become root, then sudo gets logged, I believe, whereas what root does, whether you logged in as root or whether you sudo-ed and became root, it doesn't. All you get is an entry telling you that such-and-such became root and there the trail ends.

Thoughts? I'm going to have to go back and do some rewriting to change this, obviously, but then, I need to do some of that anyway.