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[Richard S. Crawford]

On Saturday 28 June 2008 14:14:42 Michael Leone wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On my machine, the one I use all the time, I enabled the root account.
>
> I enabled mine, too. It's how I like to do things.
>
> > and in anyways, we are using kubuntu, and one of the main points that
> > distinguish *buntu from the rest of the distros is the "no root"
> > approach, it can be frustrating for people coming from other distros but
> > thats the *buntu way!
>
> You don't have to agree with each and every aspect of a distro to use it.
> :-)

I was a die hard Red Hat/Fedora man until Kubuntu 5.04. I'm not sure why I 
switched (I think it was because RH/F's support of KDE was grudging at best 
at the time, and I really prefer KDE over GNOME), but the no-root thing did 
initially turn me off. I've gotten used to it, and I don't think I've 
actually missed it since switching. I find that every root-level command I've 
needed to do I could do with sudo; occasionally I would drop into an 
interactive sudo shell with sudo -i, but I can count on one hand the number 
of times I've had to do that.

For work I administer a webserver which runs CentOS. I've gotten to the point, 
seriously, where I almost find it more annoying to have to run "su -" to drop 
into root rather than sudo when I need to execute a root level command. 

I think it's all a matter of personal preferences. I've worked with both 
models and I prefer Kubuntu's no-root approach at this point. But that's just 
me. YMMV. And that's the joy of Linux anyway: the freedom of choice.


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Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford
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