root password

[John Pierce]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/28 John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Sure.. Use it all the time. It's just that there are times *I* need to
>> > be root
>> > to get things done and and sudo just doesn't get it.
>> >
>> > I've been hacking Unix since the mid 80's and Linux since 0.12 (early
>> > 1990's).
>> > I understand the risks.
>> >
>> Then just enable the root account and set a password, then you can su
>> - all you want.
>>
>> On my machine, the one I use all the time, I enabled the root account.
>>  On the other machines in
>> the house I have left it disabled.
>>
> it is a much better practice to use the no root approach, i personally never
> felt i need the root account, sudo does it all for me, and in the very rare
> cases i need to do many things with root access, i simply "sudo su", all the
> system would still be using my privileges and rights, only this shell is
> running as root.
> and in anyways, we are using kubuntu, and one of the main points that
> distinguish *buntu from the rest of the distros is the "no root" approach,
> it can be frustrating for people coming from other distros but thats the
> *buntu way!
>
> --
I rarely log in as root, and when I do it is only in a shell or ctrl
alt f? on a tty.

It took me a little while to get used to the sudo way, I have been using redhat
for years.  It was the first distro I used, back in 1997 when I downloaded 4.2
and did an rpm install.

I was hooked from that moment, we have been a linux house since then.
-- 
John
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