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Another item is that you should add certain users to belong to certain
groups.
For instance the /etc/group file has all of the groups that are on your
system. Add a normal user to groups like audio and floppy. This will
allow you to play music and access the floppy as a normal user. like
using the mtools series of commands. This will make life easier for
you.
Bill Jonas wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:00:54PM -0400, Joseph B. Welsh wrote:
> > I redid my laptop today and that is why asked in the first place. I was
> > trying to decide whether I should continue as root or start as myself.
> > I wanted to see what other people were doing on single user machines.
>
> Others have given good reasons, but here's another: the principle of
> minimum privelege. Trivial example: you execute some program that winds
> up deleting your XF86Config file, which it wouldn't have been able to do
> if you were running as a normal user. And we all know what a pain X can
> be to configure. :) And as others have suggested, use sudo. I'll be
> happy to show you my /etc/sudoers (its configuration file).
>
> > After all the replies, I decided to try it under my username. So for
> > the 3 hours that I have doing it, it has been a pain :-)
> > but I'll keep going
>
> One tip -- since you're no longer going to be running as root, you won't
> have full access to every file like you did before. If you encounter
> some strange problem (sound doesn't work, for example), check the
> ownership and permissions *first*. It'll save you much time. :)
>
> --
> Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
> "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
> be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
> this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
>
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