On Feb 5, 2008 12:16 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > Is there really no root account? On our Ubuntu system there is one: Yes, there is a root account. It just doesn't have a password by default. It's quite easy to set the root password if you want to - just run: $ sudo passwd root > What is the advantage of sudo over su? Does it log activity better? Yes, sudo logs all commands that are run through it. su doesn't. -erik