Not major distribution enables root logins by default.  From a security perspective, why are root logins (root account) disabled by default? Instead of logging in as root, what mechanism is used to invoke “root" powers on most modern distributions? Your system is made up of a number of “*.deb” files.  There is a utility (lower level than apt, or apt-get) that manages these files.  Give a terminal command line that will use this utility to list all the installd “*.deb” files on a linux (debian based) system. Ubuntu has 2 kinds of releases. What are they and which are we using? How can you tell? Assume during your ubuntu install you selected the option to do updates during the install.  Now what is the very first thing you should do after your installation is completed? What did you learn from this assignment? How long did this assignment take you?

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  1. Not major distribution enables root logins by default.  From a security perspective, why are root logins (root account) disabled by default?
  2. Instead of logging in as root, what mechanism is used to invoke “root" powers on most modern distributions?
  3. Your system is made up of a number of “*.deb” files.  There is a utility (lower level than apt, or apt-get) that manages these files.  Give a terminal command line that will use this utility to list all the installd “*.deb” files on a linux (debian based) system.
  4. Ubuntu has 2 kinds of releases. What are they and which are we using? How can you tell?
  5. Assume during your ubuntu install you selected the option to do updates during the install.  Now what is the very first thing you should do after your installation is completed?
  6. What did you learn from this assignment?
  7. How long did this assignment take you?
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