On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 21:02 -0800, Fred Silsbee wrote: > I've been logging into root for 11.5 tears on Linux alone without > problems And others have been logging in as root for umpteen years and causing themselves considerable problems because of this. At least one of them is on this list, and probably still doing it. > It is dumb to make it impossible for everybody. It's not impossible, it's *sensibly* made not to do that by default, but it is reconfigurable for those who want to play russian roulette. I tend to feel that those who argue strongly for dumb default options (like making it way too easy for idiots to be root, arguing against SELinux, arguing against firewalls, etc.), have ulterior motives. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
