On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 00:02 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > about your rant: > > > > Actually Fedora has been installed with a user account. This is my > > home (real) desktop machine, I have been logging as root for years, > > without any issue (at least not issues I am aware of). Is it really > > so > > bad? > I'm sorry to use LMGTFY, and it's not meant as a put down, but it's > an > indication of what you should read: > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+you+should+not+login+as+root > > There's very few things that Unix/Linux people agree on, but one of > them is that you do not habitually login as root.
I'd put it more strongly: if using a GUI (rather than a text console) you should *never* log in as root. If you need temporary root powers for some admin task, use su or sudo from your normal user account. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
