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"? >
You probably won't need it. In my experience, only wodim (cdrecord) refused to work, but I can run it as normal user. If you come to need it, you can always enable it by "sudo passwd" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
