Wally Lepore <wallylep...@gmail.com> writes: > I know I can go to the menu in terminal under.....Terminal-->Reset and > Clear and it will just give me a terminal window with a blinking > cursor.
Yeah remember msods; IIRC there was the "clear" command to clear the screen (or was that "cls"?). You can also type that in the terminal. Reset is something you sometimes need when unprintable characters or something like that was displayed and has messed up the display of the terminal. You can also type that as well. MOTT it works and resets the terminal so things can be displayed correctly again. > But the fact is I'm not logged in as 'root'. You don't need to be logged in as root. You're not supposed to be logged in as root. > I read doing so can compromise your system. Yes, that's because root can do anything, and so-called desktop environments (like gnome and KDE) tend to run all kinds of stuff (much of which we don't need or want) that may do all kinds of stuff we don't know about (in the background) which makes it easier for everything to go wrong, and when you're root, nothing protects you because root can do anything. So everything goes wrong eventually when you log into the GUI as root, and you don't want that to happen. > Also read that after the initial install of > Debian, the user can't log into root. The user has to configure the > system to log-into root. > > What next please? I guess you need to be root to configure the system to log into the GUI as root. You shouldn't do that. > Okay but I need to log-into root. That's what "su - root" does for you. It lets you become root just as if you had logged in as root, but only in the terminal session in which you have become root and not anywhere else. See also: http://www.diablotin.com/librairie/networking/puis/ch04_03.htm -- Debian testing iad96 brokenarch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4ovhqc4....@yun.yagibdah.de
