> I'd like to draw devel@'s attention to trac bug 5537, which might land > sometime soon: > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5537 > The upshot would be that, instead of logging in directly as root with > no password, you would log in directly as *olpc* with no password, and > then sudo to root (if you need root). Please comment in the bug if > you have strong objections and/or be prepared to try logging in as > 'olpc' if 'root' seems to stop working in a new build.
+1 Yes, I think logging in directly as root is a misfeature that should go away. Most of the other unix-derived platforms have been doing their best to kill it off or at least reduce its attractiveness... and being able to sudo is usually pretty trivial. --elijah _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
