From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 12 21:37:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2BA14D69 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990313053710.BAOE22357.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:37:10 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990312213647.00a57400@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:36:47 -0800 To: Nocturne , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: Safety measure [Was: Re: Ports?] In-Reply-To: <36E9DAB0.94B62DE8@uswest.net> References: <199903122126.AAA86909@isis.dynip.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:25 PM 3/12/99 -0800, Nocturne wrote: >Root can delete every single file on your system with a single command >and do it before you even know it. Good point... I once did that to the /usr directory... back when I had very little idea about what this whole UNIX thing was... not a good idea! :) >I recommend creating a normal user account for yourself and use that >most of the time, using root only when the task at hand requires the >superuser privileges. And you can create a user account who's in group 'wheel,' and thus can su root if they need superuser privledges, but do most work in normal mode. Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "There's no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message