Re: Root login

[Sjors Gielen <dazjorz@dazjorz.com>]

Paweł Krzywicki wrote:
> On czwartek, 4 września 2008, kishore@vodafone.it wrote:
>> i too noticed a similar thing when i installed on my new laptop etch.
>>
>> the solution was as Cerbelle said. Login as a normal user and do sudo (
>> or you can activate root login from the login menu; but i personally
>> consider it really dangerous!)
> I am wondering why this is dangerous? 
> If your password is seen as "strong" "FaG34#fCFD12drtfdg" something like this 
> for example why this is dangerous?

The strength of the password does not matter, many people think the root
account is too important to be in actual use. They think it should be
impossible to actually run a shell as the root account at all. That's
why many people have root logins over SSH enabled, as well.

Sjors Gielen

>> Kishore Chalakkal
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