[TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

[jason watts]

>>also, if root is deleted or disabled, dont you loose part of the 
>>functionality of su ... the part where you just type su - and you are now 
>>root, provideing you know the pw?
>It would appear so.  When I tried it on my munged up system just now, I got 
>the old "user root does not exist" when I tried 'su -'
>However, 'su - falseroot' still worked as expected.  Also, just a note in 
>case you want to experiment, once I recreated my
>root user, 'su -' worked normally again.
>


yeah, these were the results i would expect, cause the way i have learnt it 
(self tought, not always acurate) is that su is for switching users, and 
would thus point to root were the su - falseroot knows who to log in as.

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