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Re: New 2.9 install questions...

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:01:55PM -0500, Eric LeBlanc wrote:
> > Don't log in as root. You should not do that anyway.
> >  
> Why?
> Which difference between (in physical machine, not by telnet or ssh or
> wathever)

[login as root ./. su'ing]

you should not do that either.
If you need root access for a given task, get root access for _exactly this
task_ via sudo.

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