Hi all, Now, this question I can answer. Yes, you can log on as yourself in console 1 and as root in 2 or whatever. You can log on as yourself in two or three consoles at the same time if you choose. I'm currently logged into four consoles, One is where I'm running my emacs session. One is where my current audio book is sitting. One is where I log onto the reflector, and one's for just stuff. Linux is truly a multitasking OS, it's not fake! You can even log in as yourself in a console and "su" to root if you need to do that. However, the book is absolutely right. You don't want to be root unless you absolutely have to. You *can* break things that way. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
