Email Battles: Confessions of a Real-World Linux Admin: “I Always Login As Root.”

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 11, 2006

[ Thanks to zanek for this
link. ]

“Yesterday, land0 wrapped me on the knuckles for expressing the
thought that any sizeable chunk of humanity could simultaneously be
smart enough to run Linux, and dumb enough to use root for personal
login.

“To the Nix (aka, *nix, BSD, Linux, Unix) world, this is like
giving a crook the keys to your office, along with a moving
van…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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