One really good reason for using normal user accounts is you are almost guarrenteed that your machine cannot be destroyed by a careless delete or mis configuration within your personal directory. You cannot do a 'rm -fr *' for example by accident:) I remember one time using my root account to post a news article or something and receiving an e-mail from a guy in Japan chastising me for using root for normal day to day activities. That was one sure way to get an e-mail from a far away:). There are actually a few utilities that will not allow you to run them from root. Postgres database server comes to mind. On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, just one more note. I always log in as root. This is the only thing I > left out in my last msg. I know it's not recomended that ppl do this in > practice, but it's not like I'm administering the server for first national > bank. Smile. > Erik -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
