On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 1:37 pm, robin wrote: > Charlie M. wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >September 27, 2003 11:20 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: > ><whack> > > > >>Good to know, thanks. I will be tempted to run as root someday > >> I'm sure, as I run as "administrator" (but renamed for security) > >> in WIndows. But that would be quite some time from now, and > >> maybe I will forgo the idea entirely if it's not too big a pain > >> not to be root. ^^_^^ > > > >For your personal security resist that temptation. _Please!_ If a > > "gremlin" manages to crawl in through a malicious script or other > > methods the worst that might happen is a loss of anything not > > backed up. Yeah, I read your other post. Sounds as though you > > back up almost as much as I do. Suspenders and belt. Or as Anne > > would say; "Belt'n'braces." If you cruise to a den of iniquity > > containing a nest of "viper scripts" as root you won't like the > > world. > > > >At all. > > Indeedy-doody. Just about anything you can do by logging in as > root, you can do by typing "su" in a terminal. It doesn't limit > you to command-line stuff; for example, once you've become root via > "su", you can type, say, "konqueror" and get konqueror as though > you were runing it as root. > > Sir Robin
But don't forget to exit root mode as soon as you can. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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