On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> We used to ship with "." at the end of $PATH, and there was a warning
> message that would get printed out about it and we were always getting
> questioned about what was wrong with the system when a newby got the
> message and didn't understand it.  It appears that in 1.3 "." is no longer
> in the default root $PATH.  Now the annoying FAQ-causing message is "Don't
> login as root, use the su command."

Well, I think it's a lot better than it used to be, "Don't log in as root,
use su". A number of new folks thought they needed to use the su user ID.
:-(

Would,
"Don't login as root, log in using your username and then use the su command"
be better? send-pr?

Take care,

Bill