About root or administrative account

[Wei-Yee Chan]

There's no absolute answer as it depends on the situation.  I sent a
post on this subject a year ago.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	OS X Sudo vs. Root: The Real Story
Date: 	Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:30:43 +0800
From: 	國產 Wei-Yee Chan <survivor at brisnet.org>
To: 	Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>


http://linuxboxadmin.com/articles/sudo-vs-root.php


I personally prefer to have root enabled as I used to belong to the
Redhat camp.

Regards,

Wei-Yee Chan
http://chanweiyee.blogspot.com


David B Teague wrote:
> Note that one chooses his advice by choosing his adviser. Nevertheless 
> I'm asking this question here, in the hope of getting both sides of an 
> issue that has bothered me since discovering *buntu.
>
> A pundit from TechRepublic made the following remark about the *buntu 
> distributions:
> *
>
> *Question: How about a bad one [distribution]?*
> *
> This is easy, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu are bad distros,
> they killed security by disabling root account. Any distro with no
> system admin account is bad.
>
>
> Please argue for me both sides of this feature. I admit to having qualms 
> about *buntu not having a root account.
>
>
> Please note that I expect to receive answers supportive of *buntu from 
> this list. However, I'm looking for incisive answers that tell me why 
> the *buntu solution to the administrative annoyance is truly better than 
> the more traditional *nix solution, yet tell me the down side of not 
> having a root account.
>
> Finally, if this is an already thoroughly argued issue and is in a FAQ, 
> please post the URL. If there are further questions, I'll ask again .
>
> With Warmest Regards
> David Teague
>
>
>
>   


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