[Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.

[Dylan]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:50, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >If you are a Windows user you probably wonder why people don't run things
> > as root.
>
> Yes, but the fact that they're ignorant isn't a good reason to let
> them do it without at least *attempting* to correct their ways...
>
> Tet

Well, in a home environment security (hence root stuff) is much less of an 
issue. As a relatively new Linux user (btw is there a term akin to 
'treckie'?) finding my 'Linux legs' as root in X was much less daunting than 
bashing the console (although I've now stripped all X related stuff off my 
home server - agh, the smugness of progress). IMHO 'you don't need to use X 
for that, this is how you do it on the console and it's bore secure' is much 
better, more helpful, and more likely to encorage a recent convert than 
'don't log in to X as root'.

That'll be £0.02, thanks.

Dylan


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