Subject: Re: "Don't login as root, use the su command."
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/11/2000 18:58:28
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David Maxwell wrote:

> echo "###"
> echo "### We advise..."
> echo "### don't do it..."
> echo "### You won't see this again"
> grep -v '###' ~/.login > ~/.loginx
> mv ~/.loginx ~/.login ; echo "###"
> 
> Then you can be as verbose as you like, since it will only show up once.
> Just make the text clear and emphatic enough that the one viewing is enough.

	I'm reluctant to have anything that automatically modifies root's
	dotfiles. I think using the SU_FROM variable can make it appear at
	all the 'right' times :)

		David/absolute