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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:12:00 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        bh@izb.knu.ac.kr
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920710110812w106c69cft71723a9b24f526f1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920710110808w4c616747k5016df40808df8d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <470E0667.7080000@yahoo.com> <1192114944.8383.30.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> <bef9a7920710110808w4c616747k5016df40808df8d@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
> > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.
>
>
> I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
> account that I can't with one.

this also works for other accounts for example I am a one person
company and thus have to maintain the software I sell as well as the
web site for it.   for this reason I keep two accounts one for
development and one for the web page and I su to them (yes I do GUI
developement).



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