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Re: Is this why you shouldn't log in as root?



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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:43:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Why?  What's the diffie between that and logging in as <user> and 
> then doing "su -"?  It's not like I live logged in to root...

Because you're more likely to drop back to your normal user when
you're done, and you're not going to be doing anything else as root,
so why interrupt your session?

Because logging in as root when you don't need it is stupid and
everybody at your LUG will laugh in your face.

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