On 2020-06-08 2:42 p.m.>Samuel Sieb<sam...@sieb.net> wrote> On 6/8/20
9:41 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:>> On 2020-06-07 4:46 p.m., From: Samuel
Sieb<sam...@sieb.net> wrote:>>> On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury
wrote:>>>> Oddly 1) I was running as root... so*who/what* was the
'unauthorized>>>> sender'? and>>> That sounds like a likely cause right
there. Why are you doing that?>> Wow! So running as root causes error
messages? Pull the other leg, it>> has bells on it!> Yes, running a
graphical interface as root is likely to cause error> messages.
I find that concept very intriguing. I would be interested in learning
exactly how
or when running as root in a graphical session can *cause* an error.
Root is uid 0 (zero).
There are no gradations or ranks within root. It seems completely
irrational to me, that linux would be designed and implemented in a
manner such that the ultimate power that is, does things 'wrong' by default.
This is entirely apart from the question of running things as root,
which in general terms, I consider 'a good thing' as distinct to 'a bad
thing'. YMMV. The only time which I can remember where I inadvertently
deleted something in bulk, that I had not intended, I was running as a
regular user, and deleted things *on the laptop*, forgetting that I was
ssh'd into the laptop in that console. Would not have mattered if I was
root. It wasn't boken but I frixed it anyway.
Geoff
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