Re: 'root'' login vs. 'standard user' login

[Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd Sumpter BCHydro bc ca>]

On 30-Nov-98 Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake Lloyd Sumpter (Lloyd Sumpter BCHydro bc ca):
> 
>> 
>> interface, DON'T login as root. (But don't tell me I can't!)
> 
> I didn't tell you you can't (or, indeed, that you may not) simply that
> it is a very bad idea.

   I know you're not, and thank you. You're doing exactly what should be done:
warning people that it's a Bad Idea, but letting them do it if they want to. My
objection was to Star Office, which, unless you do some Serious Hacking DOES
NOT ALLOW root to run StarOffice (basically, if you're root when you run
configure, it gives you the "system" configuration rather than the "user"
configuration. Hence, you can't configure StarOffice for root to use )

    I just don't feel like managing a multi-user system when I'm the only user.
Most of my Linux systems only have one user: root (except of course for the
"admin" type users like ftp and bin).
   After all, there's only "root" in Windows, or a Mac, right?
 
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