On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have three machines. I am the *ONLY* person with access to any of > them. > > One machine has my projects and associated data. There is an image > of its hard drive on a 1TB USB drive which is currently not > connected. This machine is physically incapable of connecting to the > internet. > > My second machine is effectively dedicated to email and web > browsing. As I am on dial-up there is only a connection when > actively in use. JavaScript and cookies are initialized to OFF each > tine load SeaMonkey. > > As I said in my original post > (http://lists.debian.org/5245ccd2.9010...@cloud85.net), the third > machine is set aside for experimenting OS installs. Thus the only > "data" not from install media are boot menus and configuration info. > > So why shouldn't I want the same privileges in the GUI as I have > after issuing su in the command line mode?
It's easy to screw up with root privileges when you've got a command line moderating you; with a windowing system, you might not even know you've screwed up until it's much too late to do anything but restore from backup. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131002194105.gx4...@randomstring.org
