From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com

On 1/21/26 13:04, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2026-01-21 09:58, Pancho wrote:
>> On 1/21/26 04:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 21/01/2026 00:32, Pancho wrote:
>>>> My concern was about having a root account.
>>>>
>>>> AIUI, modern security advice is to not have an interactive root
>>>> account, i.e. with a password. So being a good boy, I don't. Whether
>>>> this strategy is practical in the real world is unclear to me.
>>>
>>> I always enable one.
>>>
>>> Sometimes when there is an emergency you need not to have to type
>>> 'sudo' to edit every file...
>>
>> sudo bash
>
> If the emergency includes that /home can not be mounted, then you can
> not login as root, nor as anybody, to correct the issue.
>
>
      Funny I have had situations where /home could not be mounted but
was able
to access my root account both via terminal and Desktop Environment.

	On PCLOS we must set both root and user passwords on installation.
	In the recent past we could use the same password for both but that
has been corrected. Probably a good thing...  We cannot start up in
the root account but access is available to most functions restricted to
root via terminal and GUI.  From the Boot we can choose to enter
root terminal and I have not checked because I have enough to deal
with in RL but formerly we could login to root via terminal then
"startx"  but that was not too useful.

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026.01- Linux 6.12.66 pclos1- KDE
Plasma 6.5.5
	
	

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