Re: Is this why you shouldn't log in as root?
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 17:13, Jon Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 23:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 12:28, Don Werve wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:03:03PM -0400, alex wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Only time you should *ever* log in as root (not with 'su' or 'sudo') is
> > > when doing system maintenance.
> >
> > Like what?
> >
> Like if your hard disc just crashed, and you've had to boot in single
> user mode to clean things up (pray it never happens.).
Um, I guess I read it differently. What's been snipped out is
references to starting up Gnome & KDE as root.
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.
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