LOL! Merry Christmas, Dr J. You too, John McQ. ;)
--- "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John McQuillen wrote: > > >Yeah, but under your plan, your admins won't even have an unprivileged > >account to experiment with even if they wanted or needed to. The first > >thing most n00bs are taught about *nix, is 'DON'T LOG ON AS ROOT', and > >you're considering worse than this, you're considering logging on as a > >user, with root privs. > > > >The only reason I even suggested making all the root passwords the same > >was that you were worried that your admins wouldn't be able to remember > >a different password for each one. IMO this would be better at least > >than just giving root privileges to your admins user accounts. > > > >Don't tell me to brush up on my security. You are the one who seems > >intent on allowing your admins to log in to your systems with root > >privileges. > > > >And by the way, I don't work day to day with linux, but I do work in a > >large network operations centre and I have loads of admin passwords for > >routers and switches to remember. If I can't remember the password, I > >can't get on. > > > >If you insist on giving root to your admins user accounts, go ahead. > > > >And also by the way, you'd be asking for trouble. Don't say I didn't > >tell you so. > > > >John... > > > > > Hey John, > > How do you really feel about this? > > drjung > --LX __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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