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

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