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

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[ 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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