On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I normally do almost all admin work as > sudo, but is there a downside to not having an actual root account. > That is, might there be instances when something really should (or must) > be done in a real root account (not sudo), and with no root account, the > user is "hung up"? > >
If something happens during boot and you want to boot single, /home isn't mounted and only root is allowed to log in. If there is no root user, how does this happen? Everything is a trade-off. I figure the command line of last resort is a root login from a serial console. I would think long and hard before I removed that option. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
