From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 22 04:39:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29068 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 04:39:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29063 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 04:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA00506; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:38:56 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980322233850.08822@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:38:50 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: root Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There's a tutorial for newbies at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ which really does start from the login prompt! Pretty soon it gets to the part about adding a user for yourself and not doing everything as root. Now to unix people it makes good sense to restrict yourself as much as possible, but I've always found that a bit hard to get used to. All of the books tell us oooh, watch out, if you're root you might accidentally delete something! Well this is my computer and I've been deleting files on it for years, never asking anyone. How come suddenly I shouldn't trust myself to touch the damn thing after all these years? I should always be allowed to do what I want on my own PC. I killed two other operating systems to install FreeBSD and then someone's saying watch out? It's still my computer after all. So I wasn't convinced but eventually I did it the right way and didn't log in as root unless it was necessary. Now I'm pretty used to the idea and even like it, but I've always wondered, do other people find it so hard to get used to working with that restriction? -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message