On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:23 pm, Tasana Computers wrote:
"DOn't log in as root znd everything should be fine"
Ok this is now an issue, for some reason during install I got to the update part duing install, it downloaded tons of stuff, this is listed before setting up users, after it got done downloading it rebooted before going to the next step, when it came back up I got the login screen, since I had set up no users I was stumped, then I put in root for user and the root password and I was in, so I get from this I need to fix this. Do I go into YaST>users and create a user?
<snip> When you login as root you can create a user identity for yourself.. in Yast , you go to the Yast Modules section and then to "security and users" where you add a user ( your new safe online id or whatever name you wish ) and a new non root password... that way if someone were to get your user password they still can't compremise your computer ... which is one real reason that so far no windows intended virus or worm has been anything more than an annoyance ( mail slows down sometimes because ISPs get infected ) .
W/o your root password, they can't actually do things they need to take over the system... When you as root create your user account you will find Suse defaut permissions will let you do most things.. for those you can't do easily , you really need to look at the documentation for chmod, or chown .. So that you can understand what is safe to use those commands on. ( they change the basic ownership of some things.. ) other things you do either from the commandline using enter sux and entering root password when asked.. they you are temporarily a root users.. but you can't do everything as su ... You will find as a user some things need to be run as root, online updates for instance.. but since you set the sytem up, you already know the root password, and can enter it when you need to do things that require it... -- j Morning, Evolution in action. only the grumpy will survive