On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:29 PM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote:
> the thing is when u do something by mistake u can have a look before u give > the password in normal cases > > but when u logged in as root the above fails i guess > > But, when you enter password once, for next some minutes, you need not to enter passwords also. For that much duration, the system almost behave like login as root. PS: I never logged in as root ever. from the day one i am using sudo power ! > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Narendra Sisodiya >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Do we have any list of problem which may arise with GUI root login >>> > >>> >>> Usually, there's no problem with GUI root logins, because root has all >>> permissions! >>> And its generally a bad, very bad idea to login via GUI as root! >>> >> >> That's exactly is my question ! Why this is an bad idea ? this is just >> for discussion and manly for comparison between normal login and root login. >> 1) in normal login also, we enter password for application to allow them >> with root privilege , so both are almost same, wrong thing may happen with >> normal account too. >> >> A = wrong thing which will happen when you login as -- root -- user >> from GUI >> B = wrong thing which will happen when you login as -- normal -- user from >> GUI >> >> I am asking B-A. (B minus A). >> >> >> >> -- >> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >> > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
