Samuel Sieb: >> You shouldn't. Why are you trying to do that? Felix Miata: > If the superuser can't do something, how can a mere mortal user be expected > to do > same? When the superuser determines *everything* works as expected is time > enough > to create the first regular user.
That's *NOT* a good way to do things. (a) Root shouldn't be used as a general login. (b) Some things refuse to run, to reinforce point (a). (c) Root can do things that normal users can't. You may set up an expectation that something works, when it won't actually work for normal users. (d) People paint themselves into a corner doing things as root, and then have to continue using root, when really they should have started out as a normal user and stayed that way. (e) You can very easily mess up a system as root. Ordinary users have a much harder time at doing that. General advice is don't use root (which includes su and sudo) to do anything other than fix faults when it's the only way to things. Root should only be used for things that *require* it. Running system updates and software installations is one example. Set up an ordinary account for yourself, and always use that. Set up ordinary accounts for other uers. Do everything, and test things, as an ordinary user. Set up one or more test accounts. So that the day things go badly, you have an unconfigured test account to see how a fresh account will work by default. You have a sacrificial account you do experiments in without messing up your normal account. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 15:41:52 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
