<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Uh -- one can get used to the fact that the prompt is different :-) David Koski wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200802040826.56702.david@kosmosisland.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Monday 04 February 2008 07:31, Derek Broughton wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Pete Clapham wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The root account /is/ enabled, but it isn't given a password, so you can't access it directly. What you have to do is to sudo passwd root and enter a password. Since you've zapped your sudoers file, you probably can't do that. Personally, I much prefer to do a su and know I'm a superuser </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">The point is, that you'd be pretty much unique if, having done "su" you "knew" you were a superuser. People do that, and then forget... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I would not call that unique. There are many distros that have passwords for root by default. Furthermore, the "advantage" of using sudo diminishes as one gets used to using it and does so without thinking. I prefer to be mindful about what I am doing using the root account and develop good habbits, much like the habbit of saving changes a file editor that date back to my CP/M days (after loosing too much work). Yes, I have done "rm -rf" where it recursed to the root directory but I doubt that would have been prevented by sudo. Regards, David Koski <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david@kosmosisland.com">david@kosmosisland.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 687-6972 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:w.clapham@csuohio.edu">w.clapham@csuohio.edu</a> </pre> </body> </html>