Darxus on Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:10:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] User Accounts


On 06/01, joseph Welsh wrote:
> Aside from the security issues ( which in this case don't apply.  Single
> user laptop, always connected to internet through a corporate firewall ) is
> it better to log on as root or should I still use my user account?

You should only log in as root when necessary.  Everything you can do as a
non-root user, you should do as a non-root user.  You can't accidentally rm
-rf / as a non-root user.  This is a good thing.


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