logging of root logins

[Nicolas Williams]

Never underestimate cultural inertia. And sigh.

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:51:18AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> 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
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