On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:07:46PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't log in as root very often, but never had any problems having a > > .bash_profile in /root. > > OK sounds like you're telling us something here. You're on the list, > so obviously you tweak your debian box from time to time. But you > don't log in as root very often. How do you do it?? I'm logged in to > xdm as me but I've got a root xterm going about half the time..
when i was setting up my box i had a root shell suspended somewhere nearly all the time. not good security, but until i gained confidence that it was running the way i wanted, i needed root access to munge this here and frob that there. these days, i only have a root shell running 40% of the time. :) most of your 'use-the-computer' work otta be done in a user shell. use root only for system maintenance and updates!
