There's a simple answer to the question of how many root passwords youshould have; clearly, you should have a separate root password for eachsystem. This answer is, shall we say, naive in most situations.

We can see why by asking the traditional security question of what theactual risks are of using the same root password on different systems,which is that an attacker who gets your root password from one systemcan then immediately compromise another. So the first situation whereit is mostly or entirely pointless

A sysadmin editor needs slightly more than to bea fast-starting thing that needs a minimal environment. It turns outthat sysadmins are picky people (well, at least I am), and there aresome small mistakes that otherwise competent editors can make that,unfortunately, make them non-starters for the job.

The first and the most classic mistake is automatically changing tabs tospaces or spaces to tabs. Just like programmers working on makefiles,sysadmins edit files where tabs are not interchangeable with spaces; aneditor