Very simple
Don't do anything as root unless it cribs that you don't have permissions.
In verbose mode,
Typical things root is supposed to do are as follows
1)Manage users i.e. create/enable/disable/delete them
2)Manage disk space. i.e. create/delete partitions and delete any unncessary
files.
3)Manage daemons i.e. services running on your box like sendmail, apache, news
etc.
4)Look after security and activity log for the better health of the service.
5)Manage software i.e. install or configure/compile/install/configure the
software.
Rest of the things user can do and hence root should not be doing them.
In other words, users are suppose to do their work and root is suppose to do
everything else required. Reasonings for all this is not too difficult to
establish. That exercise is left to you.(So I don't claim that I know them...
;-))
HTH
Listers... Comment...
Bye
Shridhar
Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:
> thanks Sridhar! can anybody tell me what a newbie must
> NOT do as root? is there any web-based article about
> this? any help will be immensely appreciated!
>
> - Diwakar
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