I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use sudo or fakeroot.
Funny, but 'sudo echo $PATH' gives the $PATH of the user, but 'sudo whoami' says root. sudo does access the binaries in /usr/sbin, which are not in the user's $PATH. Bob 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.. > -chris > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
