Certainly. Because I am the only user of my system (besides my friends logging
in to share files or to talk), so there's really no reason to not be root.
Everyone who talks to me spouts the old chestnut that you can really screw up
your system if you're root, but no one ever tells me how. Sure, I could type
'rm -rf /*' and my system would merrily go to hell, but really, if I'm stupid
enough to type that, why am I using Linux? It would be infuriating to have to
su every time I wanted to do anything interesting besides using a program.
If you can show me one good case where being the superuser will prevent *any*
disaster (major or minor) not due to stupidity, I will cease the practice
immediately.
Though I won't hold my breath.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> That is something totally different. I can give you several good reasons why you should open
> a shell as root. Can you give me one good reason why xsane should be run as root?
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