Take the tour ×  By default, Ubuntu does not create a root
account that the user can login to. Instead users use sudo when
they need to perform actions that require administrative access.
Obviously, the people at Ubuntu feel like this is a good idea,
and everything I've read on the Ubuntu site gives plenty of
reasons why they think it's a good idea (see RootSudo @ the
Ubuntu Wiki, for example).  However, many other mainstream
distributions, such as Debian, Gentoo, etc. don't set things up
this way by default, and I'm trying to figure out why. If
Ubuntu's default sudo-root setup is such a good idea, why aren't
all of the other mainstream distros doing it too? This leads me
to believe that there might be strong reasons for NOT setting it
up this way; but I'm having trouble finding anything that gives
any details on this. All I'm finding is articles/posts that talk
about how great it is ...  So my question is: Are there any
major problems with Ubuntu's sudo setup (insecurity, functional
limitations, etc.) that