well, am still wondering what's wrong with root login.. Anyway ,problem which i face is mainly with IRC clients. I can't access some channels(probably one that require registeration) @ freenode server when i logged in as a root. It deny access by saying "You are blocked from this channel... or similar..".
I face the same problem in sabayon and ubuntu. Don't know , if it's distro related issue or generic one... regards Sahil http://opensource-dtu.org http://sarvahitay.posterous.com/ http://www.commgod.co.cc ...... "'free' as in free speech, not as in 'free beer'." --RMS. On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> With sudo, there's a five minute time when you can access the root >>> privs, later you've re-enter the password. >>> When you login as root, there's no such time limit, if you leave your >>> box on in root account, somebody can misuse it. >>> >>> If you browse internet using root account, it is very much possible >>> that some javascript or some flash app, can take control over your >>> system which is strictly impossible when you use the user account. >>> >>> With root account, applications running can write to the binary >>> directories, /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib and can place a malware >>> there. >>> >>> this is absolutly right >> so the root gui makes the system vulnerable like windows !! >> which we dont want :P >> > > Even I do not want too. I never logged in as root user. But I wanted to > list out of the points. > Thanks for discussion ! > > > > > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya > │ http://narendrasisodiya.com > └─────────────────────────┘ > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
