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Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)



On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian 
> increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login 
> page to allow "root" to login and now it works.
> 
I will reiterate the sentiments that some others have expressed.  This
is a very bad idea.  There is nothing that absolutely requires that you
login as root.  Between su and sudo, you are able to do anything
requiring elevated privileges.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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