root vs user

[pinco]

Thanks Mitch for your advice. I'll follow it: I've always logged in as root!

As for my GUI I'm using Gnome.

I suspect that I have to make some kind of link (I don't know how to do 
that), but if so, should I always link the applications (folders) for 
every user I'll setup?

Ciao,
Nino



Mitch Wiedemann ha scritto:

> Hi Nino,
>
> First, I'd like to advise that you don't log in as root at all *ever* 
> unless you have no choice.
>
> To do system maintenance I'd advise this procedure:
> 1. Log in to your normal user account
> 2. Open a "Terminal" or "Console" window
> 3. su (to gain root privileges)
> 4. Do what you need to do.
> 5. exit the root terminal when you're done.
>
> I NEVER log in as root unless I've done something to completely hose 
> my normal user account. :)
>
> As for your other questions, are you using KDE or Gnome or other 
> desktop environment?
>
>
> Pinco wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> as I wrote in other messages, as root I've uninstalled Mozilla 
>> Firebird and installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
>> The all system seems work well (even if I still don't understand why 
>> I don't have libxcom.so with my openoffice), but when I login as a 
>> user I still have the icon of the Firebird on the desktop bar and 
>> menu and I don't have access to Thunderbird.
>>
>> Somewhere - one of the online manuals - I've read that during the 
>> process of creating a new user, after the creation or modification of 
>> the directories/files /etc/passwd /home/USER /etc/shadow /etc/group 
>> /etc/gshadow, copies the default user settings from /etc/skel/ to 
>> /home/USER, but in my system this folder seems empty!
>>
>> Can someone give me some explanation?
>> How can my user have the same root desktop and applications?
>>
>> Thanks a lot and, please, don't forget that I'm still learning!
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Nino
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