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Re: to allow root logins or not?



On Friday 27 April 2007 16:43, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote:

> > sudo, but is there a downside to not having an actual root account.
>
> It is possible to break sudo and if that happens it is handy to be
> able to log in without having to reboot.  One of my customers did
> this recently by issuing a

It's also handy to have a root login when giving a series of commands.  
Instead of typing sudo "this",  sudo "that" and sudo "theotherthing", just 
su.  Then, it's just "this", that" and  "theotherthing".    Less typing is 
good!



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