Root as Primary Login: Why Not?

Posted by pudge on Sunday May 5, 2002 @03:48PM from the uh dept.

A user writes, "I help moderate a forum dealing with Mac OS X, and I'm having an awful time convincing a fair portion of our readers that logging in as root all the time is a Really Bad Idea. Worse, though, are the ones who try to convince others to log in as root all the time, claiming it's 'more Mac-OS-9-like,' or saying 'it's not really more insecure,' or even that 'a firewall should deter hackers pretty well.' I know all the standard arguments, but they're not working out. Does anyone here have some real-world anecdotes that I can point to?"

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Um, its the other way around... by crisco · 2002-05-05 16:25 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Nice Troll though...
Those pretty bar graphs indicated the time spent getting the job done. That means that the taller one labeled Mac on each of them means the Mac took longer. Generally that means the Mac loses to the Athlon.
besides, its all offtopic anyway :)

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