On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:11:04PM +0100, n6tadam wrote:
Dear Lists,
This is perhaps slightly off topic, so bear with me. :-)
OK.
I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root??
I have two distinct personalities with respect to Linux: end user and system administrator. For day-to-day activities, I am the end user and use a non-root account. For system administrator, I log in as root.. System admin is mostly limited to installing and configuring new software and occasionally new hardware (most recent being a network printer and a router). Other system admin stuff (nightly backup, etc.) is run as root from cron jobs. 99% of what I do is as an end user via a non-root account.
For example, most of my bash scripts that I write, require the use of certain files, which, if not ran as root, would require me to run numerous chmod/chgrp commands to get them to run.
What are some examples of the things these scripts do? -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net