Re: Why is the sky blue? -- "user" and "root"

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 06:12 AM 4/5/99 -0700, you wrote:

>2) Would it be preferable to log in as "user," switch to "su" to perform 
>operations as root, then return to "user" for ordinary operations, then 
>once again, upon exiting, reboot in order to log in as "root" and 
>shutdown the system?

This.  For example, C-A-D (which is a BAD way to stop) is only supposed to
work when root is logged on to the console.  When you want to read root
mail, you need a hyphen too: "su - root".  Don't overuse root.


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