Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1728 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On 12/13/2009 9:44 AM, lynn wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> > Sorry to come in late on this but I think it selfish that a user be 
> > able to
> > install just his set of software. It would be very difficult for him to
> > install all the packages and put the libraries in his path. If root 
> > does it,
> > everyone can share the libs and application.
>
> All well and true, but these days the vast majority of Linux 
> installations
> are on PERSONAL computers, and as such there us usually exactly ONE user
> account, and that user also has root.
Now, how many normally log in as root?  I rarely do, but when I need to 
do something as root, I'm asked for the password.

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