14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
11:16 a.m.
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:
GenericUbuntuNonRootUserPrompt% sudo vi
(while in vi)
:shell
Have fun.
-spc (Has had to do that a few times on fresh Ubuntu installs)
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...