Re: to allow root logins or not?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote:
> Gee, I hate to ask another question, but -
>
> During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not,
> no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin
> access is done by sudo. Now I normally do almost all admin work as
> sudo, but is there a downside to not having an actual root account.
> That is, might there be instances when something really should (or must)
> be done in a real root account (not sudo), and with no root account, the
> user is "hung up"?
>
>
If something happens during boot and you want to boot single, /home
isn't mounted and only root is allowed to log in. If there is no root
user, how does this happen?
Everything is a trade-off. I figure the command line of last resort is
a root login from a serial console. I would think long and hard before
I removed that option.
Doug.
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