On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:25:20AM -0500, James Pifer wrote: > Ben, > > Thanks. I have taken your advice and I am not using root for my login. > Moving Evolution was a pain, but hopefully done now. This does lead me > to a question.
Great, I think you'll be happier this way. Especially if you're like me and sometimes type something stupid. :) > When you're doing things on your system where you need to get to files > etc, is it just standard practice to su to root to get more permissions, > etc? That's what I do. I use sudo for the few things that I want everyone else (in my family) to be able to use but that require root access. For example, burning CDs or getting pictures off the digital camera. I also set sudo up for a few relatively harmless things that I do often, like miscellaneous mount commands--it saves some typing. A friend had sudo setup so that he could get a root shell without a password. I don't do that because I consider it a security risk...if my account gets cracked, the intruder doesn't even need to know the root password. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 "Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
