11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:56 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:44 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
That's a pretty big sweeping assertion, one with which I
wholeheartedly disagree. Sudo has been around for a very long time,
and while it makes great sense for newbies, it gets in the way when
people who know what they're doing are trying to manage a system.
Likewise, having a root account makes great sense for newbies, but for
more experienced users sudo is the way to go.
Let the newbies make their "oops I accidentally /var while logged in as
root", and let the proper sysadmins use the grown-up tools.
Gordon
There's also the stupid new provision in the installer that you MUST
create a local non-root user to install the system.
Although this is offtopic for other reasons, it's probably been
about 10
years since I had a usable root account on any system I've installed.
These days you should be using sudo.