> Yes. Type w and you'll see the time at which you just logged in. That seems to me like a completely unimportant detail, with little to no consequence. When compared to the consequences of having a shell with uid==0 this seems like nitpicking.
So, it confirms my suspicion that "root login" is used to refer to a distinction that is pretty much irrelevant (tho I guess there is the fact the root access occurs via some other local user, so you get a tiny little bit of a trace). Stefan "who usually uses `su -` but thinks of it as a `root login`"