logging of root logins

[Adam McKenna]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:02:05PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > hm, i don't think uid sharing is a standard unix feature.
> 
> I agree that it's not a very nice thing to do but I know several
> organisations that use several ROOT accounts. It's nice to have several
> passwords to access ROOT priviliges. (I know sudo or similar is better but
> not as convenient).

How is sudo not convenient?  It's four letters, and the person doesn't need
to remember a separate root password, he just uses his own password.

It's also vastly more configurable.

--Adam