On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 12:35 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I then had people tell me that it was recommended to never create the > root user and I should get rid of it, which I did.
I've never really agreed with the don't set up a root account mantra. There's plenty of times where it's useful. Just don't set it up with a crap password, don't allow it to be remotely accessible (by default it isn't, anyway). In my opinion, it's *mostly* argued against to try and get people out of the habit of doing things as the root user when they shouldn't. Yes, editing a plethora of /etc/ configuration files as the root user is sane, when administering a server. No, writing your web pages and documents, browsing the web, etc, doing normal user things, is a VERY BAD idea. But people will do that, then paint themselves into a corner where they have to keep being root to carry on with what they've done. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
