I do know the fact that Ubuntu deactivated the root-account. However, your argument with the live-cd is slightly wrong. I tried editing the required files in a livecd first, and even there, you are not able to acces important files ( e.g. the /etc/sudoers file ), as every text-editor tells you "permission denied" . But maybe its just me or I missed to notice something.
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