On Friday 03 Oct 2003 11:05 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > > And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root > > in KDE? These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me > > to stay for a while in KDE as root than to type my root password > > everytime I want to do some root job as a regular user. > > This has to be the weakest (and, coincidentally, the most common) > excuse given for running in the GUI as root, and it's just plain > wrong. If you are logged in as root, you are incapable of testing > whether or not the change you made will work as you expect it to > when running as a user; all you can be certain of at that point is > that it works when running as root. You still need to logout, and > login as a user, to complete your testing. > And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you can safely leave it open until you have finished and tested what you are doing.
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