Re: Is this why you shouldn't log in as root?
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 10:31, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * 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]
[snip]
> > 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...
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