[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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 >
Yeah ... sudo is more secure than su. In fact, some systems, for example, the Gentoo LiveCD, scrambles the root password. So you have to do $ sudo su - and then set a password to ssh in as root. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
