On Sunday, December 08, 2013 07:01:50 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 07 December 2013 21:36:30 Bob Proulx wrote: > > If you look back in the mailing list archives you will find a > > recent discussion where there were some people who didn't like > > sudo. I was shocked by that because I always thought that most > > people liked it. > > Yes, I don't like it and always want a root password. As you say, > this is and has been contentious. I personally am better having to > use a different password in order to do admin tasks. I am just too > accident prone to use the same password for everything. And if I am > going to set up a separate administrator, that administrator might as > well be root. > > I am the only user on my box, which I think is relevant. And my > husband actively doesn't want to be able to mess up his system. My > granddaughter felt the same. My husband has explicitly asked me not > to tell him his root password. > > Horses for courses? "I may not agree with what you say, but I will > fight to the death for your right to say it."
Quite sensible. In your circumstances. For me, I usually set up 'sudo su' to become root without password on my desktop because I am always becoming root for one reason or another (to run my kvm-go script that starts KVM sessions, to clean up my smoothwall builds, to allow the smoothwall build system to become root as needed, etc.) On other systems, I usually use 'su' and enter the root password. System flexibility is the key to enabling people to work how they need to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312081914.49760.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
