[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:28:38PM +0000, Ken Gilmour said > Well i think the best solution to get around this is to setup a normal > user account... then edit the /etc/passwd file and set that person > with root permissions so as soon as they login theyre automatically > made root. Uh, why? If you really, truly want to run as root, then run as root. Making a second uid 0 account is no security at all. The "normal user, then sudo when you need to" mantra may be old, but it's still extremely good advice. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: AGT. AMME digicash Subversion beanpole BCCI Marxist asset
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