log in through root

[Tim]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 20:26 +0100, agraham wrote:
> 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.

Oh yes... like learning about firearms by playing russian roulette.

It ain't FUD about avoiding logging in as root, and doing everything as
root.  It's a fact it's a bad idea.  Those who start off doing damn fool
things, like that, learn all sorts of bad habits that they find very
hard to break.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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