working root with the one regular user account

[pwatk]

True but I'm sure you see my point.

Edit: That said if your running as root your just one foolish / away from disaster. In fact you could issue the command relatively as rm -rf . and nuke everything if you forgot you were at the root of the tree. It's happened, I'm sure. Never underestimate human stupidity.

[try-alls]

True but I'm sure you see my point.

Edit: That said if your running as root your just one foolish / away from disaster. In fact you could issue the command relatively as rm -rf . and nuke everything if you forgot you were at the root of the tree. It's happened, I'm sure. Never underestimate human stupidity.

yes i do, i thought root meant overall commander in a sense yet root opens doors all over the place for evil activities to commence, posts all over the net are now making me want/need to create a second user so if someone posts on my "few questions thread" or i find a good guide before hand this is the next task.

[zAchAry]

how is working as root bad? if you know what files you can delete/edit etc an your system still works as is or better since editing certain files, typing a password in every time you need to "work on your pc" s a hinderence that lost windows so many customers. also please enable root login via gdm going back to init id3 is a pain in the ass sometimes

also any changes a default user will make are done under root so therefore the usage of a non-root account is pointless as either way you run the risk of f****** up the pc

I'm not too experienced with GNU/Linux systems but I concur 100% with the saying that "Working as root is a really bad idea" as long as we are talking about GUIs (especially GUI-ed File-Manager)

"...oohhhh, I'm so tired, and I can't detach myself from mousy..."
3 hours later (~5AM) eyes are opening
"...why is my screen is black? what does it say about GDM failure???!!!!!!!!!!"

[zAchAry]

If you think you're smart enough to be running your system as root, you're supposed to be smart enough to answer you own questions. If you were actually smart, you wouldn't be asking that question at all though.

Actually I wanted to write this, too.

OTOH, control, revision, checking ! (could very well be)

[try-alls]

You already got your reply here: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7628#p7628
That wasn't a funny post.

Get it inside your head: running as root is stupid, reckless and dangerous. You think that you know everything, but you don't. Yeah, it has been debated at length that running the system as root is fine - by stupid people that think that they know everything.

If you think you're smart enough to be running your system as root, you're supposed to be smart enough to answer you own questions. If you were actually smart, you wouldn't be asking that question at all though.

i never once said i was smart enough just that i only edited what was needed an proven to work, so on a final note get off your high horse an since you have such a small/new distro don't go rippin people an therefore puttin them off your distro with offensive mannerisms, as is the old phrase if you don't know ask.

[gapan]

Well well, you turned up to be a nice looking troll. Sorry, I'm not going to do you that favour and respond appropriately.
If you think that I give a damn if you're using salix or not, you're completely mistaken. This thread is now locked. Consider this your first and last warning too. You also lost the privilege of receiving help from me in these forums.