* n6tadam
This is perhaps slightly off topic, so bear with me. :-)
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??
Define work .. Jason writes and sells software for the oil and gas world, running under a bunch of Unix flavours, including Unix. None of them require rootpriviliges (though if you want to install the software it's easier if you do have root permission). Most of the day to day work I do (including a bunch of system administrative tasks) are done as user myself, not as root. The only things I need a root account for are: -installing RPMs - burning CDs (since I've never bothered with changing permissions).
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.
Please show me one of those scripts, Most of the scripts I've written for day-to-day work (perl,csh (when I didn;t know better) and sh) all can be run (and usually are run) as user, not as root. Currently listening to: the hum of my computer Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Standing above the crowd, he had a voice so strong and loud =`\<, we'll miss him (=)/(=) Ranting and pointing his finger, At everything but his heart we'll miss him