On 05Mar2018 19:45, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/05/2018 07:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Thanks! If you don't fill in the Root section, then root is not set. I do that since the time we have had this option and set myself up as a superuser.
I had no idea it would let you do that, and personally, I consider it a bug.
Not if it an intended supported behaviour. Plenty of systems are set up with no
explicit root password, but access for "admin" users via sudo.
You can always give root a password if this disturbs you, but it immediately
closes off the whole "I log in as root all the time" issue that plagues naive
users on home systems, and also closes off the whole "ssh in as root on a shiny
new system which accepts root-login-with-password".
If you've ever spent much time on a Mac you'll discover that they're all like
this: "admin" users who can use sudo and ordinary/guest users who can't. And
normally no direct root login. (Yes, they're proper UNIX systems and you can
boot single user etc.) It is actually a pretty good setup for consumer UNIX
systems.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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