on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:13:49PM -0800, Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca) wrote: > I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get > sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? Yes. This is bad practice. Changes made to your user account are now equivalently changes to root. Data saved by root may be stored under your user account. More annoyingly, permissions may be mismatched between your user and root accounts. Don't do that. Root is root, user is user, and the twain should never meet. > I understand the privileged status of root, however, given that 90% > of my time on this machine is spent tweaking it (and not writing my > thesis), I become root about a hundred million times a day. > There is sudo, but my /etc/sudoers is getting pretty long and > some things like 'make install' can't really be done with it (I > don't want 'make' in my /etc/sudoers). I use a fairly liberal sudoers setting for my personal account. Yes, this means that I'm usually only a few keystrokes away from being root -- but that's what I'm after. And a password is still required. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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