Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 26, 2006 06:54 AM
You don't understand safety and security. What you are giving is bad advice, and you should not work as root constantly. What can happen, you may ask? For example, you can make mistakes, and given your novice status this is quite a safe bet. If you make a mistake as a normal user, the damage is often small, and you can cope. Mistakes as root can be huge, instead. Those four extra characters can give you that additional second of thinking before hitting the ENTER key, and sometimes you may realize that you were doing something wrong and stop doing it before it's too late. Also, if you run a program potentially dangerous as normal user, the damage is limited. If you are always root, you can face nasty side effects on your system. Experienced Unix administrators use root only when is necessary. You should do the same.
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Re:This tip made Ubuntu usable for me...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 26, 2006 06:54 AMWhat you are giving is bad advice, and you should not work as root constantly.
What can happen, you may ask?
For example, you can make mistakes, and given your novice status this is quite a safe bet. If you make a mistake as a normal user, the damage is often small, and you can cope. Mistakes as root can be huge, instead. Those four extra characters can give you that additional second of thinking before hitting the ENTER key, and sometimes you may realize that you were doing something wrong and stop doing it before it's too late.
Also, if you run a program potentially dangerous as normal user, the damage is limited. If you are always root, you can face nasty side effects on your system.
Experienced Unix administrators use root only when is necessary. You should do the same.
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