On 4/21/07, Soner Tari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess the OP means, for example, Ubuntu-like setting, where there is a root account of course but you cannot log in as root (actually, you can drop to root shell in single user mode or by sudo -i). I believe this hopefully serves the purpose of preventing the habit of system admins to log in as root, thus can protect the system from inadvertent behaviour on the command line (and perhaps GUI too). Probably nothing else in practice.
they are trying to solve a social problem , people using root account way too much, with a techinal solution, sudo + disabling root login by default, not gonna work :-) -- almir
