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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:

> > you once a five minits need to do "su" ,cause you need to mount something
> > or to install something or to do any other system maintainance work you'll
> > begin to work under root  .
> 
> I've been doing UNIX administration more than ten years by now
> and the number of times I logged in as root under normal
> circumstances can be counted on my toes (well, maybe with the shoes
> off :)

I login at my console as "root" because I know I'm the only user... if I
had two people logging in as root, I would have blocked direct root login
too.

> 
> On many UNIX systems root isn't allowed to login directly at all,
> this is in order to give you another layer of protection and some
> tracability as to "who logged in on this terminal at that time
> as root??".
> 
> 1. open another window/virtual-console to continue work as a non-root

my favourite. I run with 23 virtual consoles (and one for X) and I login
as many times as I need.




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