Subject: RE: Perhaps a silly question but...
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 20:57:01 MST
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Michael R Hanulec wrote:
> > I would say that root should never login to a graphical session. If
> > you want, create another user that logs into a command line session,
> > and switch to root in that.
There's no reason root simply can't log in to a command-line
session.
> i would suggest not ever logging in as root at all. i use a great program
> called 'sudo.'
Is there something wrong with plain old su? sudo is used by
sysadmins *other* *than* *you* to give you restricted root
privileges.
- Paul
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