From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 23:27:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fed1mtao02.cox.net (fed1mtao02.cox.net [68.6.19.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3EF37B414 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ip24_56_31_67.ph.cox.net ([24.56.31.67]) by fed1mtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020614062707.GRMQ24965.fed1mtao02.cox.net@ip24_56_31_67.ph.cox.net>; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:27:07 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brett Rogers Reply-To: loki_bsd@cox.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another question Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:27:05 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020614062211.CQB19182.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@there> In-Reply-To: <20020614062211.CQB19182.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@there> Cc: AZNPrideChinese@worldnet.att.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206132327.05532.loki_bsd@cox.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:21 am, you wrote: > when i download stuff from the web, is it a good idea, to download them > into /root? i mean when i am logged under root As a general rule it is not a good idea to login under root. If your use= r=20 account is in the wheel group, you can run anything that requires root=20 permisions by using su or sudo. (read the man pages) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message