Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:02:07 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root Message-ID: <Marcel-1.42-0323150207-d07Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322120505.9242D-100000@ophelia.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun 22 Mar, Sean Harding wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > [about being root] [about the pros and cons] Under Windows/Netware, you can't just "su" to root. You must shut-down you computer first, that's why at the company I worked, everybody who knew the admin-password logged in as admin. Simple. Excluding me, 'cause I was/am used to be careful with the root-account. But as we were sharing some PCs, the others got annoyed by the fact, that they weren't able to sit at the PC and start 'rconsole' or so, as I always logged out and logged in as myself. Under Unix, you just open another x-term and su to root. After that, you can log-out and everything is fine. But Windows has never been desgined as a multi-user system, so there will always be problems. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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