On 04/27/18 08:29, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/26/2018 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/26/2018 12:14 PM, stan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:05:28 -0700 >>> Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I think the majority opinion now is that logging in as the root user >>>> is discouraged. In almost all cases sudo is sufficient and if you >>>> need to do root things for a while, just use "sudo -i". For remote >>>> access as root, use keys. >>> I guess I hold the minority opinion, but that's OK. Linux is all about >>> choice, and the more the better. >> I'm curious what you find you need to use a root login for. I used to >> use that all the time, but gradually I switched over and on my desktop >> system, it is extremely rare that I use it. (I think only when the >> graphical display is messed up and I have to switch to a console to fix >> it.) The places I do use a root login are for remote admin, either >> servers or remote laptops and computer that I administer. And in almost >> all cases, the root account is accessed using ssh with keys, no passwords. > You need to be root to install software (e.g. dnf), start processes that > use network ports <= 1024, manage disks, mount remote filesystems and > many, many other things an active sysadmin has to do. Sam did say "root login". Yes you need to be running a process "as root" which sudo provides but you need not "login" as root to do what you've mentioned. FWIW, I never have the need to login as root from the graphical interface. But I do, at times, have the need to issue a series of commands from the command line as root. In those cases sudo is cumbersome. So, I will use "su -". So, no matter what the default is I will be giving root a pw. :-) :-) -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.
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