Robert Fisher wrote: > 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.) > > ok well that answers that one pretty well :-)
reg
