On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:05:23PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > True, but I was referring to "defaults" Lazy? It has to default to one way or another, the default of username:username is more secure. > On a Debian system, and others most likely although it's been a long time since I've touched other distros, if you want to su to the root account it doesn't by default load the pathing/profile. Again, this is configurable, but it's annoying as all get out to me that you have to configure it. Slackware, and the major Unix systems do this automatically. Less typing, less front end configuration for something that should already be there. The concept of what should or should not be there is completely up to the person using the system, sane defaults are great. > True. But so many distros are coming with far more bloat. Then debian must have the most bloat, considering how large the apt repositories are. Or, bloat simply depends upon what you choose to install. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list