From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 16 22:26:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sjukebox.home (MCCI.dyn.saunalahti.fi [195.197.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3761518C for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 22:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjuke@saunalahti.fi) Received: (from sjuke@localhost) by sjukebox.home (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00317; Mon, 17 May 1999 08:26:18 GMT (envelope-from sjuke@saunalahti.fi) X-Authentication-Warning: sjukebox.home: sjuke set sender to sjuke@saunalahti.fi using -f Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990516170345.A220@whizkidtech.net> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:26:18 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: juksi@iname.com From: Jukka Simila To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Newbie tip Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-May-99 G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >> Another method to try and get you out of the habit of >> logging in as root when it is not needed:-)))))) > > Hehe. I have found I need it all the time. Whenever I log on as a regular > user, I feel like a prisoner. So, by now, the only time I do that is when > I reply to email. Otherwise, everyone would think my name was Charlie! > Such a bad habit! (or at least dangerous, i think :) At first I thaught regular user accout was restricting, but since I've learned that It's not that bad thing to have some back-up if you forget you aren't running dos, that doesn't allow you to kill your software with a single rm Using "su" for logging as root is a good way to do things, but I think there's a better way: program from ports called 'sudo' It allows normal users to run programs as root with their own password, like: 'sudo reboot' would prompt for user's password and boot the machine. --- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. --- Jukka S juksi@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message