Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:48, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
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> I think that a lot of users tend to switch to using root because they
> cannot achieve simple tasks with their "normal" user. For instance
> writing cd's. It would help if there is a doc that explains how users
You mentioned sudo. Paul Johnson mentioned 'su -m'. This works
*great* is you want to have an xterm window logged in as root, and
run a GUI app from it.
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"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer
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Bertrand Meyer
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