Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 12:42 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxx> [05-31-08 11:30]:
> > >  
> >
> > OK. So I won't give root privileges to a user. Just the root password?
> > The user is a user that has root password. What does that make him/her?
>
> A *user* with root password is root.  NO USER should have root
> password.  Change "root"s password.

That doesn't make sense.

How is a user with one password to login and a different one for root
any different than a user with the same password for both? If he/she
knows the root password anyway, it's no different.
-- 
Kevin "Yo" Dupuy
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