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Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Vincent Meyer wrote:
True, it might not be, however why should I loose features because
I choose to do this? I log in as root because I am often installing,
fiddling, testing, etc with things that most user shouldn't - at the
same time I'm getting my user work -
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 10:51, Radek Vybiral scribit :
I solve this bad things:
Copy ~/Desktop and ~/.kde/config from normal user to /root
NO. the best way is to not log as root !
Why MDK hates logging as root in KDE?
The warning at the begining should be enough.
Yes. Red background
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
No as you log as root and don't understand why it is dangerous.
there's also su and sudo
+ open a term
+ []$ su -
give the root password
make what you want, and you can launch what you want. reduce the term or put
it for example in the third
Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
in
this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
So,
speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
Well, here at Mandrake we sure do tweaking of system all day long, and
no
one
On do, 2001-09-20 at 04:28, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:21, Sergio P.Korlowsky a écrit :
Well... if it goes to votes, I vote to leave it as it is now, and I haven't
seen it yet
so do I, but I'm going to test RC 1 so I will see it maybe.
it is true, you a
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
in
this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
So,
speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
Well, here at Mandrake we
superuser aka root
su for superuser
with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid.
Almost nothing else
but su username changes you to any user on the sytem, hence the command
is abbreviated switch user, and not super user
--
Tom Tomahawk Badran
Department of
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael Bollozos wrote:
Im a Mandrake user(newbie), and I would like to log-in
as root in my Box, but with the current 8.1's
new behavior I think I would just stick to 8.0
coz i normally log-in as root in my box this
box is not plugged in the network BTW... I have
On 20 Sep 2001, andre wrote:
su = switch user
su - or su - root for root
su - user to log as a user
superuser aka root
su for superuser
with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid.
Almost nothing else
Nah. Also all env variables. su -, but with su yes
Le Mercredi 19 Septembre 2001 15:39, David BAUDENS scribit :
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 10:19, you wrote:
1. Background has nasty and distasteful dark red color (blood color
is probably right term). When wizard starts background is changed to
usual blue. I cancelled Wizard and KDE came
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 03:25, Vincent Meyer scribit :
Maybe so - but I hate it. I spend half of my time logged in as root
because I WANT to be logged in as root.
why do YOU want to do that ? don't do it !
You don't NEED to log as root in KDE, and what YOU want may not be the best.
True, it might not be, however why should I loose features because
I choose to do this? I log in as root because I am often installing,
fiddling, testing, etc with things that most user shouldn't - at the
same time I'm getting my user work - e-mail, word processing, etc
done. I DON't want to
NO! Just because I don't choose to use what you consider are safe
or good practices shouldn't force me to go back to Windows!!! Plenty
of people logging into KDE as root isn't the same as plenty of
developers
logging into KDE as root.
If you feel that you can use it safely enough, then
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:11, Tom Badran scribit :
If you feel that you can use it safely enough, then surely you must have
the abililty to change/enable any of the features you want, why should
mandrake be changed for 1 person, when 99% of people want it the way it
is, or dont know
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:33, you wrote:
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 03:25, Vincent Meyer scribit :
Maybe so - but I hate it. I spend half of my time logged in as root
because I WANT to be logged in as root.
why do YOU want to do that ? don't do it !
You don't NEED to log as root
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:21, Sergio P.Korlowsky a écrit :
Well... if it goes to votes, I vote to leave it as it is now, and I haven't
seen it yet
so do I, but I'm going to test RC 1 so I will see it maybe.
it is true, you a see lot of people logged in as root, unreal!
unreal is the
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 10:19, you wrote:
Just did new install, Configuration, Console, Gnome, KDE groups
selected, ni manual package selection, Russian locale KOI8-R. First
time login, startx.
1. Background has nasty and distasteful dark red color (blood color
is probably
On September 19, 2001 23:20 pm, you wrote:
NO! Just because I don't choose to use what you consider are safe
or good practices shouldn't force me to go back to Windows!!!
Plenty
of people logging into KDE as root isn't the same as plenty of
developers
logging into KDE as root.
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