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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 14:23:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jeah.net>
To:        John Congdon <john@tradeweb.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disabling The Root Account
Message-ID:  <20010502142336.I30799-100000@awww.jeah.net>
In-Reply-To: <71E79DA61328D311B4D10020AFF78E4218DBEE@bdc.orlando.tradeweb.net>

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And how would you go about doing system administration tasks if you did
this?
-- Jonathan M. Slivko

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On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Congdon wrote:

> I am considering changing root's shell to /bin/false or the like.
> And doing everything via sudo.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this?  Is it not advisable to do this?
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