You should always have a non root account, and you should be in it most of the time. That way if you accidentally type rm -rf from / you won't trash your system. That's an extreme example, but lesser things happen to me all the time, all the time, where I'm glad I wasn't root. I'm loggged in as me on console 1, and root is console 6. I switch to 6 when I have to do root things, which isn't very often. BTW, I finally got my wife's windows machine set up with non-admin logins. Each kid has his/her own login, for homework etc. And if they pull down a virus, through mail or internet, it does a lot less damage, when run from someone who isn't admin. Whatever the OS, you should spend almost all your time as a non-privileged user. Period. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list