> On May 22, 2016 at 4:49 PM "R. W. Rodolico" <r...@dailydata.net> wrote: > > The big thing for me about Ubuntu, etc... is not the fact they use sudo > a lot, it is that by default they do not allow root login at all. If the > /home partition has problems, you must login as a user, then sudo to > root, then attempt to dismount /home and work on it, which will not work > since /home has files open (since you logged in as a user with a home > directory in /home). So, I have to boot off some other media to do > repair work on /home (or fix the login) > > sudo vs su is an interesting decision to make, but not allowing root > login is a matter of too much security to get your job done.
Or you can sudo, edit /etc/passwd to change your login directory temporarily to something not in /home, logout, and log back in using the temporary directory. Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
