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Le Vendredi 1 Juin 2001 16:18, vous (Joseph B. Welsh) avez écrit :
> I agree, but can't I do the same thing with a su command in a terminal
> window?
>
> I have been running as root for 2 years and never have I typed a command
> like that. I gather from what everyone is saying that as non root user,
> If I do become careless, I have less chance of deleting something I want
> to keep. But is that the only advantage to being non root on the system
> I described?
>
> Joe
also - some things such as irc are quite dangerous to do as root, many
clients won't even permit you to use an irc client as root, and beyond this,
many irc channels will kick you if you try to join as root. Just a little
extra tidbit for ya ;)
--qumak(james)
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