-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 6, 2001 10:08 am, Chris Reeves wrote:
If you are doing this as root, as I think you are, then DON'T. Create another user and use that account. Using root for everyday work is a Bad Thing.
Ah, the one most important point that newbies don't seem to listen to. I was once a young soul logging in as root for regular usage. I thought, "Hey, I know what I'm doing. It's no worse than in DOS." Precisely. As I used it more and more I started realising that I actually want to limit what I can do with the system: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ... Aggh, I meant /dev/fd0, /DEV/FD0!!!! Well, ok, I didn't actually do this but it is definitely not inconceivable. Also note that Linux's success in not having viruses lies in the fact that many people do log in with user accounts. Meanwhile, I like how the new KDE builds pop up a dialog when you log in as root. To continue you have to click the "I do not care about my data, let me login" option. Heh heh. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Hi38+FOexA3koIgRAqTWAKCknpX1lT+qn/7/qrOP5WdLqUz55ACfU6Y0 qBc8LPLAmImNYHDc3RCS3LY= =qggi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----