Re: root login
I'll bite once again...
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 19:57, Michael Toomim wrote:
>
> Take a Microsoft Windows XP or Mac OS X machine out of the box and use
> it and it operates in a similar manner to LindowsOS – the first person
> to touch it can do whatever they want. If we make Linux harder to use
> then other operating systems, users will not embrace it. Users just want
> to get their work done, they don't want to be computer experts and they
> shouldn't have to be. Of course, if they want to add a default password
> or setup multiple accounts and restrict access to their own machine,
> they can of course do it on all of these operating systems, including
> LindowsOS, even though none default that way.
That's simply not true for Mac OS X - the root account is disabled by
default and sudo is used for administrative tasks. That's the way to go
IMHO, not logging in as root.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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