On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, LENGARD Pascal OCISI wrote:
> That is the point. I just can not see why being logged in as root on a
> console permanently can be usefull. you want to shut down ? either press
> CTRL-ALT-DEL or do "exec su -" to become root WHEN YOU NEED IT. You want
> to shut down your X session, press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and it is gone...
>
This is a pretty secure system -- I'm behind a firewall and
pretty much at the local console all the time. Thus, it's
pretty safe for ME to run a console window as "root." Note
that it's pretty much just sitting there inactive unless
there's a problem. :-)
> When you are logged in as root, all small typos can
drive you to a point > where you have to re-install all
the system. you can alter the partition > table, erase
disks, erase all the filesystem, kill a job doing important
> work ... >
>
See that's just the point... I don't run around as root.
Mostly I just run a root "console" login "just in case" I
need to do something as root.
99.9% of the time, the "root" login is never used and I
just switch to it to shut down the system (when I'm going
to turn it off.)
John
