On Jun 20, BG Lim wrote > I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having > to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid > all the 'Permission denied' messages. For some months after I got Linux installed until I knew better, I had my own account (graham) with a UID of 0, because I wanted to poke around the system. My experience is far from rare. That doesn't make it any more justified to do, however. -- Graham Hughes <ghughes@cs.ucsb.edu> MIME & PGP mail OK. (define pgp-fingerprint "E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B") (require 'stddisclaim)
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