Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin | Unix - InfoWorld

Mon Feb 14 22:31:05 UTC 2011

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:09:14PM -0800, E K wrote:
> That is funny but true! Particularly, the last one.
> 
> Well, I use 'sudo bash' which is effectively is equivalent to su. Too lazy to assign a password to root:-) Also, a system without root password is a little more secure than one with root password.

And how do you deal with 'you need to run fsck manually, please enter
root password to continue'?

sudo only is a nice theory, but no more than that.

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Len Sorensen
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