On Friday 15 June 2007 7:11 pm, Reg wrote: >This begs the question: why bother having reg as a user at all > when he has stuff all access to anything? why not just have a profile as > root and do everything as that person? it would save having to become > root all the time? or is my logic somewhat skewed here? :-) > As root, you can access files and change the system in ways other users cannot. But you can also wipe out your entire hard drive in just ten keystrokes.
Unless you plan to install new software or tweak your system, you should log in to Linux as a user other than root. (As a computer technician, I get a large proportion of my jobs from people with Windows - and all users with administrative rights.)
