Mark Andres <mark@giganet.net> wrote:

>I think having this message, no matter what the message is, wll lead to
>FAQs from newbies.  If you want the message to be complete, you would
>really need to say something like:

>No matter what you say, new UN*X users will still have questions until
>they understand the basic concepts.

So given that UN*X isn't MacOS or Windoz-95 maybe the better approach 
would be to totally eliminate the warning message in root.  The new UN*X 
users will probably continue to use root as their main account until they 
figure out why it's not a good idea.  The knowledgble user will work out 
of his/er own account because they know better than to log into root 
directly.

An alternative would be to supply a default user account like MINIX does 
and recomend that users use it instead of root.  That way the new user 
has a prototype of the account they should create for themselves and use 
instead of root. This way we could leave the simple warning message as it 
is in root and provide a more detailed README or whatever in the sample 
user account that explains the reasoning behind the use of su with root.  
The user isn't faced with reading it on every login and the knowlegable 
user who uses his/er own account is never bothered with all this.

-bob