Re: dangerous to leave root logged in?

From: Shane (aka froggy) (spamspamuber.l33t.god_at_spamgmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:27:38 +1200

> But if he has four
> xterms open, one of which is a root shell, he might accidentally get the
> focus into the wrong one.
>

>
> --keith
I am constantly guilty of this
I have multiple xterms open some with root logged in
and the number of times I have executed commands as root when I meant to
do this as a user is to the point you would have thought I have learnt my
lesson by now
(usually I wince for an hour or so then go right back to doing it) 

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