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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: login as root Date: 3 Jun 1995 20:03:59 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3qr0pv$end@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <3q8c44$9rf@detroit.freenet.org> <3qo1fq$aq7@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <3qo1fq$aq7@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: > >I once again lobby for changing the root login message from > > "Don't login as root, use su instead!" > >to > > "Don't login as root, login as yourself and type 'su' instead!" > Hear, hear... (polite applause) I agree totally. Not that my opinion counts much anyway, But I figured someone should. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) 386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone that wants to do it...."