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> Don't log in as root. Use a normal user account. When you have to
> install something "su" to root ... it will save your butt some day I'm
> sure. Most packages that you install in general go like this:
A long time ago when I first started using Linux at home I learned the
value of this advice the hard way. I did an 'rm *' in /etc - I thought
I was in a different directory. Needless to say, I wasted alot of time
trying to recover/re-install my system.
I figured I'd be careful while I was root. I had never really been burned
under dos/windows. Turns out I'm human.
> It's not all that painful.
sudo has alleviated alot of these pains for me:
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
It makes it fairly easy to exec single commands or applications as root.
It's a little faster [for me] than using 'su'.
Kyle
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