14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
11:49 a.m.
From: Sean Conner
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:16 AM
It was thus said that the Great Jochen Kunz once
stated:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:48:15 +0000
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Ditto, and a decent security measure too.
> It would be acceptable as a security measure to
restrict root login to
> the local text console. This prevents "missuse" of the root account but
> makes the system accessible in the event of a failure. If e.g. NIS
> breaks you can't get into a Ubuntu machine to fix the problem. All you
> can do in that situation is to hit the reset button and boot single
> user. But that is an other story...
GenericUbuntuNonRootUserPrompt% sudo vi
(while in vi)
:shell
Have fun.
-spc (Has had to do that a few times on fresh Ubuntu
installs)
That's an awful lot of schratzing around to accomplish what a simple
GUNRUP% sudo /bin/bash
will do for you. (I use this frequently on my Snow Leopard system.)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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