log in through root

[Rick Sewill]

On 03/28/2010 02:49 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 28 March 2010 20:26, agraham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
>> On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>   I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and
>>> finally added a user name "rajanish"
>>> .I am log in through "rajanish"but i have not accessing throgh root...I want
>>> to log in through root because i want to learn administrative property.
>>>   please help me to guide log in through root..
> 
>> At the login prompt (or your graphical login program - gdm, kdm etc)
>> use the username "root" and password that you set when installing Fedora.
> 
> Nice idea, but it won't work unless you enable it:
> http://linuxers.org/quick-tips/fedora-12-enable-root-login-gui
> 
>> Please ignore all those that present horror stories and FUD about root,
>> you have to learn somehow and the best way is to mess around as root.
> 
> I disagree and I am a professional Linux sysadmin. I never login as root.
> 
>> Unlike a normal user, your path with will include /sbin so you won't
>> need to prepend root commands with a path e.g. /sbin/ifconfig.
> 
> You can add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your normal path if this is a
> problem for you. I do this and then I login as a normal user and use
> "sudo" or "su -c" to prefix any commands I want to run as root.
> 
>> And if you happen to do something like  "rm -rf /", just re-install and
>> start-over, I'm sure you'll learn from your mistakes like we all did.
> 
> No comment ;o)
> 
> --
> Sam

rm -rf / doesn't just happen on Linux...one of my coworkers did
rm -rf * on Solaris...he thought he was one place, but he was at /

You should have heard his language.
On second thought...no you shouldn't.