On Friday, June 09 2000, John Summerfield may have said:
> > of getting a login shell for root. Logging in as root at a console
> > (something you should never do,
>
> Why on earth not?
In an environment with a lot of administrators, logging in directly as
root gives no accountability for who did what. Having to log in first
as a user and then su to root allows you to see who logged in at a
certain time when foo was changed. Even in a single administrator
situation, it is useful as you know that either a) both your password
and root's password were compromised or b) you left a terminal sitting
open that got hijacked.
Then again, this is largely a preference of the type of environment
you're in I guess.
Jeremy
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