Magic Banana said:By default, Trisquel does not have a root user. As a consequence, it cannot log in, even locally.
When mate's System Monitor is running, under Processes, the following programs appear with user set to root: ksoftirqd/0, ksoftirqd/2, or ksoftirqd/3, and Xorg occasionally, as the need occurs.
I've even seen "nobody" running dnsmasq. It would be a relief to know that this is normal operation. The rest of us get root privileges with sudo. George Langford
