Hmmm, i run root all the time and will continue to do so. couple of reasons.
I got tired of typing su and sudo about every 3rd command. I got tired of not
being able to cd into some of my directories.
When i make a mistake as root and wipe out half my file system, so what, its no
big deal to me. I am not NASA or the pentagon. I am a, in my opinion, typical
homeuser. There is nothing installed on my system that would cause the world to
end if it gets erased or deleted. It would only be me spending my time
reinstalling everything. Big deal. Now yes i can see this when you get into
systems that have several users, or at places such as banks, universities,
governments, etc. But for the typical home user i dont see that it is that big a
deal to run root so long as they arent going to go crying and whining that they
erased half their files. If they are willing to accept that chance on their own
machines i say get off their back and let them.
As for the IRC stuff, I pulled up xchat in kde and started it up. It gave me
two warnings. One when it started saying i shouldnt irc as root and then
another when i tried to connect with root as my screen name. I changed my
screenname and clicked connect. Logged in just fine. Got the channel list,
joined a few rooms, etc.
So apparently the only thing is that you cant use root as your screenname. At
least that is what happened in my case. and btw, i logged onto Undernet
US, irc.dal.net, irc.gimp.net, and irc.foxchat.net. I didnt have any
problems what so ever. Just had to change my screenname from root and it
looked like the two warnings were originating from the program xchat and
not from the servers.
Ian K. Harrell
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> > > Are you folks who are complaining running as _root_?
> > >
> > > This is something not to be done, for many reasons, including the fact
> > that you
> > > get kicked from most IRC servers.
> > >
> >
> Well, talk to the folks out on irc or try to run irc as root and see what
> happens. Most servers out there will log you off with a message, and not
> always a nice one.
>
> "Don't irc as root"
>
> was about the most polite I got.
>
> Anyway, nothing is prevented, just made a little harder to do, so that you
> remember you are in root. How do you think I stumbled across the server
> behavior? I appreciate the reminder so I don't endanger myself quite so much.
