* Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [030428 23:35]: > 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. <yoda>You will be. You will be.... <snicker mood="foreboding"/></yoda> good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." --Noam Chomsky
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