I disagree... While entering a password at every admin action is more secure to a novice user to get to admin functions but to say that a root passwors should never be set seems a bit overkill.
To designate that you must enter a seperate password to get into system areas seems to be a barrier of entry enough. Also personal accountability... People should not do things unless they know what they are doing and if they don't bother to find out the dangers its on them at leaste IMHO. - David Wade Hagar http://twitter.com/titanshadow Sent from Palm Centro using ChatterMail via AT&T. -----Original Message----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1:02 pm Subject: [lug:13632] Re: true root (was: Which Linux OS is better?) To: [email protected] Then those scripts should be refactored. And in a pinch, you can get a root shell without having to set a root password. Yes, you can set a root password, but it's not recommended, neither in Ubuntu nor OS X nor any other OS that uses sudo. Does that make becoming root a bit of a pain? Yes, it does. But that's the point. Whenever you are root you have the potential to really foul things up. There needs to be some kind of interlock or barrier to entering the root state, if for no other reason than to let you know that Here Be Dragons. And something that ensures that your time in that root state is brief. That's what sudo does. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
