On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > > I simply like the vast offerings of opensuse and the use of YAST to > maintain it. I got yelled off this group before touting StarOffice, now > OpenOffice. Nobody is invading your clubhouse. > Suse is a good distro. I spent a lot of time on SLES in my past life. -Rob > Yaron wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Rick Engebretson wrote: >> >> The youngsters were a couple of engineers leaving for Silicon Valley >>> in a day or two, so I didn't have a lot of time to figure out Ubuntu. >>> I use the command "su" for xterm root use, and couldn't get root >>> access in any way. >>> >> >> Hi there. Extreme old-timer here, professional UNIX admin for almost 20 >> years, amateur UNIX user for longer. >> >> Logging in as root and the su command have always been a very weak part >> of UNIX security. Over the past decade or so, with sudo becoming more >> ubiquitous, root logins have become somewhat deprecated. Even on >> UNIX-like systems where root/su are still used, there is not one >> security document that'll not put "install sudo and disable root logins" >> somewhere near the top. >> >> This isn't an Ubuntu thing. It's one of the things where Ubuntu is >> following current security protocols. >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> ______________________________**_________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<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/ea09cdff/attachment.html>