On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:55, Patrick Dunford wrote: > it's more convenient to log in as myself because > the script is sitting in my home directory, but when I see "permission > denied" it's natural to think that root has the right permissions.
Hmmm ... It's far safer to your files and things to never be root. Root users can accidentally destroy data as a side-effect of doing something that seems harmless. Logging in as root terribly bad, but sometimes you really do just have to be root to get a job done. The "correct" way to do this is to use the "su" command (or better, the "sudo" command, if you have it) to become root temporarily. Try that next time :-) Plus it's quicker than logging out/logging in as root/logging out/logging in again as yourself ... -jim
