On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety > consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. > move, copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better practice to use CLI > w/ suid to make those kind of changes.
Learn to use the command line interface instead. You can do things on the command line that are almost unimaginable in a gui system, where on can only do what can be clicked on, roughly speaking. On the command line, you have more control, for a small price of having to think about every little thing that you type in. And besides, most operations on files involve processing the file contents, not moving the file about or changing its attributes. Another thing is that gui system management tools do not scale nicely over the network, generally speaking. You are best off to start with a book about the "bash" shell, and a general book about unix system administration. For reference, or if you do not want to pay for a book, there is the bash manual page, "man bash", and at http://ibiblio.org/ , you can find various online books about linux. Cheers, Joost
