* Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [030429 11:22]: > On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 10:31, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [030428 23:35]: > > > At the console, I log into root on occasion for things like upgrading > > > the NVIDIA driver, restarting X after upgrading XFree, etc, and am not > > > afraid of it. > > > > <yoda>You will be. You will be.... <snicker mood="foreboding"/></yoda> > > Why? What's the diffie between that and logging in as <user> and > then doing "su -"? It's not like I live logged in to root... Yeah, I know. It was just a joke. On some level, though, you should always fear root a little bit. Each thing you do, you should ask yourself "do I *need* to be doing this as root?" For this reason, I prefer sudo, and only do specific command lines as root. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.eff.org/
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