I would say most popular distributions *do* enable the root account,
especially Arch Linux. Also on Arch Linux, the only way to log in is
through the root account. My complaint is that root logins are disabled via
ssh, even though they decided to start sshd by default. What's the point of
that? The whole point of ssh is to avoid having to connect up a monitor and
keyboard.

Arch Linux (and most other "advanced" distributions) don't start you off
with normal user accounts, so you *need* to log in as root initially,
somehow.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>wrot=
e:

> Modern Linux would not let you log on as root, you need to have a "normal=
"
> user which is added to the sudoers so if root access needed you just sudo
> the command...
>
> Did not that Arch Linux image provide a normal user credentials?
>
> Tamas
>
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