Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually it seems to be not mine, and not sash fault -- it seems to be a > common practice mentioned in multiple howto's around the web such like > http://linuxgazette.net/issue48/tag/16.html
It's a really *bad* common practice. Use of the root account in general should be minimized and ideally done through an auditing method; creating *more* root-level accounts, particularly with separate passwords, can cause all sorts of interesting problems. I've worked in organizations that did this as a matter of course and seen disaster as a result. The reason why sash does this is different than the reason why people usually talk about it on the web, but while the sash use makes a moderate amount of sense at first glance, I'm not sure how often it's really useful compared to booting single-user or just changing the shell of the root account itself and normally using sudo. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
