F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Benjamin LaHaise bcrl at kvack.org
Thu Jan 22 03:22:02 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Then they don't need root.
> 
> Is it wrong that I actually /miss/ the linux community's sense of 
> elitism? It kept us so much more sensible on so many things.

If systems didn't break we wouldn't need root, sure.  But back here in 
reality, things aren't there yet.  Disallowing root logins merely makes 
life hard for those of us trying to fix broken systems.

		-ben




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