James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
The Ubuntu policy seems designed to discourage the practice of logging
in as root, which is generally considered to be bad because it abandons
valuable protections against a) doing unintentional bad things, and b)
cracked or malicious programs gaining full privileges.
Regards,
..jim
Which is generally considered bad: logging on as root or using Sudo for
all rooty things?
What is the effective difference in terms of security?
How important (practically speaking) are any such differences to a home
computer user?
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~DJA.
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