that darned ROOT problem

[Janne Jokitalo]

Bo Grimes wrote:
> is a poor substitute for education about the purpose for and
> uses of root.

Not solely so. Without root password, you at least get away with random
attacks that try common usernames with passwords like 'admin', 'password' or
the like. You get the picture.

The average user joe might very well put something very simple for root's
password, since there's then another thing to remember, and since everyone
always warns not to use those yellow notes attached to monitor side, well... :)

So you see, it's not that simple. This is a well thought-out approach, and
I'd wait a long while gathering experiences before go and change it due to
few people disagreeing with it.


-- 
Jaska