Mike Dwiggins wrote: > No problems at all about your comments. My only question is, How > does a new guy learn? If there is a better way I am ready to hear > it. The problem is all I hear is "Never Log in as Root". Those > comments never address "How do I install a add-on from inside > Opera?" Just the unending mantra of Never Log in as Root" That's a fair point. :) In almost every case I can think of, you don't need to login as root to achieve the task at hand. In the Opera example, I would surely think that you can start Opera as root from within a normal user's login. A command like "su -c 'opera'" should start the browser as root and you could then install an add-on. For a bit more flexibility, sudo is also an option. For some quick help in configuring sudo, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Configuring_Sudo. (To be fair, I've never used opera, so I don't know whether it would complain if started via su -c or not. It might require su -l -c, where the -l would run the command with root's environment, rather than the user who called su. I also don't know why opera would require you to run the browser as root to install an add-on. That seems like something that could be improved -- though installing Firefox add-on's system-wide isn't as easy as it should be either. :) > Some of us are causal users who wander in from the Windows world! I > wish I could live in Linux but, that ain't gonna happen! > > I need to be able to log in as root to do my job! I wish it were > not so but, it is! Life always fair! I think some of that "need" might be based on the experiences you've learned from in the Windows world. I think it's very unfortunate that Microsoft has done such a poor job of encouraging and allowing users to run with the least privilege needed. In trying to help my friends and family who cling to Windows, I am regularly appalled at needing to login to an account with admin privilege to perform some task. In linux, I would only need to use su or sudo (or, in many cases, I'd automatically be prompted for credentials when more privilege was required). For the most part, I think Fedora gets this right much more often than Microsoft does. I hope I've been at least somewhat helpful. If you have troubles with su or sudo or you find that some particular task seems to be difficult or impossible to achieve without logging in as root, asking about it on this list is likely to yield some interesting answers. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The man who can make hard things easy is the educator -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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