> > By using a root > prompt, you expose yourself to far too many risks and lose out on > several very nice benefits that one gains by using sudo. What are they? Are this thread's recommendations even for my home servers, or is this more for the shared server environment, a la corporate? On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > This isn't an Ubuntu thing. It's one of the things where Ubuntu is > following > > current security protocols. > > +1. Couldn't have said it better. Ubuntu has made some bone-headed > moves in their history, but their decision to all but disable root was > not of them. > > Unfortunately when I was first cutting my teeth on linux > administration, I chose poorly(tm) and frequently signed into all my > servers as root. I was very fortunately to never have had a major > mishap as a result of this, but that was just pure luck. I've since > broken myself of that habit, and use "sudo su -" only when absolutely > necessary. > > When interacting with less experienced linux users (or more > experienced ones who are still using a root prompt), this is one thing > I'll try really, really hard to embed in their minds. By using a root > prompt, you expose yourself to far too many risks and lose out on > several very nice benefits that one gains by using sudo. > > -Erik > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120429/411d5ace/attachment.html>