Root login

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:00, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> who wrote:

> I'm going to skip the whole "why you shouldn't log in as root" part, as
> I assume you know all about that, 

This, often heard as a quasi-religious injunction, is crap.

While loggin in as root has risks, ans should not be done for every day 
desktop use, there are sysadmin / netadmin tasks that can only be done as 
root.

Which is, I suppose, why root was invented in the first place  ;-3)

> and just tell you how to do it. 

Many thanks.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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