Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:38:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <20000105233831.A391@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001041651300.49171-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <74489.947003811@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001041651300.49171-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 04:53:48PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >shell -- you will get weird and unexpected behaviour if you give the two > >different home directories. > > hmmm.. i thought 'toor' should have a home account for maintenance > activities, right? Or wrong? That's where i leave my scripts for cvsup > and kernel compiling. I thought the idea was to use root only for > emergencies, and minimizing the number of writes to the root partition. Not quite on the spot, but close. There is a couple of usernames, namely `root' and `toor' that have the same user-id (0), and their HOME directory is set in /etc/master.passwd to be the same. Their difference is the shell that they get automatically fired up when they log into the system. If you're into CSH, you can use `root' for your system maintenance work. If, on the other hand, you prefer the Bourne shell you can use `toor' (which has /bin/sh as it's shell). Despite this little difference though, both these users have a user-id of zero, which gives them superuser rights once they login. None of these accounts is suitable for every day work. This is true because of the many perils that await at the end of the "command line" of a root user which typed accidentally the wrong command in an inappropriate current working directory. Do yourself a favour, and create an account without superuser priviledges, with a name of your choise, and use that for playing around with X11, WindowMaker, or anything else. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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