[Wolves] finding my roots

[Steve Parkes]

Kevanf1 wrote:
> I then ended up enabling 'root', logging in as such and
> accomplishing the task.  I like to have the choice of loggin in as
> root if I wish as aware as I am of the inherent dangers of doing so
>

The danger is that Ubuntu has not been tested with root enabled and the 
desktop tools like gsudo are patched to ask for the sudor password and 
not root so something might not work as expected when you use them like 
this as described by B

When ubuntu first entered testing more than 12 months ago I installed 
using the first disk set up to do this and it took some getting used to 
and I needed to sudo a shell sometimes to get things working I doubt 
there is anything you would need to do this for now with more than 12 
months of testing.

I have never used root on my current Ubuntu system, I have never wished 
for root under osx and I can't remember the last time I needed su and 
not sudo on my debian boxes, once you stop using the root account and 
start using sudo it's amazing just how little you need to be root for 
that can't be done one command at a time ;-)

sparkes