On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:44:34PM -0500, Albert wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> <snip>
> Thanks, Kent. That was a very useful mini-tutorial.
>
> >Concerning logging into Gnome (or any X setup) as root: that's not
> >recommended practice. Generally, you can override this safety setting by
> >tinkering in the Gnome configuration file (but I'm not sure of the
> >specifics, as I don't use Gnome). If you _must_ log into X as root (AND
> >YOU DON'T NEED TO!!), I recommend that you do it manually with "startx"
> >rather than allowing it from the login manager. Just start a second X
> >session ("startx -- :1", then Ctrl-Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F8 to toggle back
> >and forth between the two sessions) or kill the login manager first
> >("/etc/init.d/gdm stop").
>
> Hmm. I'll have to try killing the login manager. My reply above
> to Paul describes what I did to enable use of startx.
>
> :) I've been on Linux for several years on my home machine using
> several distributions. I know logging on as root is not
> recommended but it's just too big a pain in the butt to *not* be
> root. I've encountered no downside yet.
>
If you run all programs as root then you are risking your system to the
quality of all the code that you play with. Seriously, _don't_ _do_ _it_.
As an alternative that is somewhat more safe and still pretty convenient,
I take the time to log in a console as root and leave it open while I do
most of my work as a user under gnome and kde. The screen looks very
different under a console so it is hard to forget that I am running as
root.
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