On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:11:52 am John B Pace wrote:
What I didn't like about Ubuntu is that one signed in as root and then one would have to create another user and remember to use it, though there was probably a way to change the su to user and visa versa.
Did you installed Ubuntu? From above description it seems that you have used only Live CD. When installed Ubuntu is forcing use of 'sudo' which is pain of its kind on the computer where untrusted users have no access, so user can open console, run 'su -', give root password and keep that opened for as long as one wants. In the openSUSE KDE GUI, program 'konsole' has different background color for root user, and recently it was added that the prompt for root is marked with red color (this is system wide), besides common '#'. So there is many warnings that you act as root. To add to all of that even more, my normal user has white text on black background, while root has system default black text on light yellow. With all that it is not easy to make mistake and run something as root that should not be run that way, without hassle of running sudo all the time. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org