From: Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> > And logging in as root for everyday tasks is generally discouraged, as well. > Most admins will edit their /etc/sudoers file to give themselves sudo > access, so they could run > [username at machinename ~]$ sudo yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-* > (which will then prompt for the user's password, not the root password) > instead of logging in as root. I must be a bad admin because I rarely use sudo (only to limit some access to some commands to some users). That would make me prepand 99% of my daily commands with sudo. After a while, that gets annoying... IMHO, this rule is good for users/workstations, not admins/servers. And even on my workstation I have a dedicated root window where I do root stuff. JD