Re: Ownership Question

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:25:47AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >Most of my files/folders are owned by root. It's starting to seem like >that's not such a great idea because a few of the programs that I use >don't like you to be root when you run them. > >So I'm thinking that I should start rec

Re: Ownership Question

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Telly Williams wrote: > ... is changing my ownership drastically like this a good idea? That would be a very bad idea. Trust us. Things were set up the way that they were set up for a reason. It was not simply an accident. > Isn't it bad to have so many files owned by root? No. In fact it wo