On 06/07/18 19:47, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:00:17 GMT
> Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>
>> I remember Linus (from Linux) saying something along those lines too
>> not so long ago.
>> Way too much root fear, and silly warnings.
>
>  Agreed, having a root account that can't be logged into makes a lot
> of sense on servers owned by a business and maintained by several people
> because using sudo provides an audit trail of who did what with root
> permissions.

Except that its trivial to set a root password if you have full sudo rights

>
>  When it's your own box then the only reason not to be root is to
> reduce the scope for damage from mistakes and malware - these are good
> enough reasons to make using root rare.
>


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