On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:08:19AM -0700, Nathan G. Grennan wrote: > The solution to this is simple: you shouldn't be logging in on the > console as root in the first place! (What, are you crazy or something?) > > Proper Unix hygiene dictates that you should log in as yourself, and su > to root as necessary. People who spend their day logged in as root are > just begging for disaster.
I couldn't agree more. Even in OS X you have to put in the admin password; you never want to be root less you wish to reinstall in the near future. Mark -- | Mark C. Ballew \Revolution is | Graduate Student, University of Nevada, Reno \not | RAWUG President: http://rawug.org \an AOL | Homepage: http://sublinear.net \Keyword _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
