On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:47:35PM +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > I see loads and loads of posts on the MS forums of the type "I am the > sole user and administrator and my account is corrupted how do I access > my data?" with various answers being given, including the setting up of > an Administrator account which is never used except for emergency access > and elevation purposes. > Does Ubuntu ever suffer with corrupted User accounts (I have to say I've > never seen any posts anywhere about this) and if so, what's the fix?
Essentially not, because Ubuntu more-or-less comes out of the box configured with an admin account which is disabled from normal login and only used when needed (the root account). A normal user doesn't have privileges to wreck the whole system. That's not to say malware with user-level access can't do damage to the stuff which is actually valuable on the average home user's machine though: data (photos, documents etc) -- Josh Holland <j...@joshh.co.uk> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
