On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Nick Holland wrote:
Other than generating duplicate user number error reports from the nightly security check, the generally bad idea of duplicate user numbers, creating confusion and ambiguity that doesn't need to be there, the likelihood that you will have forgot the 'root' password when you need it and being a really silly way to solve a completely non-problem? No reason at all.
Just sudo when you need to be root -- avoids ever logging in as root unless something's *REALLY* wrong. You can keep your shell (or better yet, just run the command you need to run as root).
Sean
