On 10-07-17, Kaj Persson wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the > root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a > password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I > gave the command sudo passwd root, and entered a password. And now I suppose > I have burned my ships and have no way back... > > But! Nothing has changed. I can still not enter program icons to the panel, > and not define keyboard shortcuts. If I sort the icons on the desktop they > still, after a cold start, come back in a completely other order, dispite I > had marked "Keep ajusted" (right click on desktop). > > So...? > /Kaj >
What are you talking about, there are several ways to lock your root account? Not sure why you would like to though. You can lock it with sudo, like this: sudo passwd -l root But that is not really necessary. Better would be to learn how to strengthen your root account. Depending on what you really want to achieve, you can set it up so only way to access it would be to use su, or sudo from trusted accounts. If you are interested in that, further reading you can find here: https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-wstation-privileges-noroot.html
