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Date:      Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:36:26 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!
Message-ID:  <493C33CA.2020200@gmail.com>
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Michael Powell wrote:

> I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the
> root account the way they do, such as the favorite "I wanna use bash
> for root's shell"...

Probably because most users are unaware of the harm that it causes.
Perhaps someone should add a comment to the top of the passwd file (if
there is such a thing as a comment in the file) saying: don't play with
root.



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Eitan Adler
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