Justin Bengtson wrote: > security is not an issue to me. i have a decent firewall and > i back-up regularly. about the only thing someone could "steal" from my > computer is the 1200-odd mp3's i have...
Have you ever typed your credit card number into your web browser? Do you think someone who has superuser privileges on your box couldn't have intercepted it? Do you ever type the password to other people's systems (at work or school)? Do they want the world to have access to their systems? You can eliminate typing passwords, as Patrick suggested, by using sudo. You could also set a really long password timeout, so you only have to type root's password once a day or once a week. It is possible to configure X to "autologin" a user when the machine boots. I do not remember exactly how it's done, sorry. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
