On 03/28/2010 02:49 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 28 March 2010 20:26, agraham <agraham@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote: >>> Hi! >>> I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and >>> finally added a user name "rajanish" >>> .I am log in through "rajanish"but i have not accessing throgh root...I want >>> to log in through root because i want to learn administrative property. >>> please help me to guide log in through root.. > >> At the login prompt (or your graphical login program - gdm, kdm etc) >> use the username "root" and password that you set when installing Fedora. > > Nice idea, but it won't work unless you enable it: > http://linuxers.org/quick-tips/fedora-12-enable-root-login-gui > >> Please ignore all those that present horror stories and FUD about root, >> you have to learn somehow and the best way is to mess around as root. > > I disagree and I am a professional Linux sysadmin. I never login as root. > >> Unlike a normal user, your path with will include /sbin so you won't >> need to prepend root commands with a path e.g. /sbin/ifconfig. > > You can add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your normal path if this is a > problem for you. I do this and then I login as a normal user and use > "sudo" or "su -c" to prefix any commands I want to run as root. > >> And if you happen to do something like "rm -rf /", just re-install and >> start-over, I'm sure you'll learn from your mistakes like we all did. > > No comment ;o) > > -- > Sam rm -rf / doesn't just happen on Linux...one of my coworkers did rm -rf * on Solaris...he thought he was one place, but he was at / You should have heard his language. On second thought...no you shouldn't. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
