Gary wrote: > For me personally, logging in direct as root is a tangible mental cue > to be VERY CAREFUL, and I make sure to give myself visual cues as well > (coloring the panel(s) and titlebars bright red, etc.) I'll grant > that other people may find other methods that work better. >
I work as root and wheel a lot (several hours a day, typically), in Linux and more often, in OpenBSD ssh sessions (remote servers). Usually I log in as wheel (no root login) and then su to root, and just stay in root until I log out. I have my root sessions in a specific Desktop (six virtual Desktops on one machine, not six Desktop machines) and no-where else, so the rest of my applications on the other 5 Desktops are non-root, non-wheel unprivileged user 'wittig')... so there is no chance of my screwing up and surfing the web as root. This works for me. So far (about four years as root in various production environments) I haven't forgotten I was running as root and screwed up...which is not to say I haven't screwed up, while running as root.<g> -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
