On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: > Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have > to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? >
No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and unpleasant as possible to try to discourage you. Anything you need to do as root you can do with kdesu or su in a terminal as I described. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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