SELinux

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

On 20/01/2011 02:27 πμ, Tim wrote:

>  It's been years since I've logged in as root, since I haven't had to
>  do that.

Well i do usually login as root , i have been doing so for the last
few years , ok i know it´s not the best thing to do but let´s say it´s
just a bad habbit.

When I did do it, to fix up some problem that I'd created,
>  it was a simple matter to "su - tim" to get a terminal in my user
>  account, to (more safely) do something while I was in the middle of
>  repairing the problem I caused in the first place.
>
>  For what it's worth, I'd somehow upset the permissions of /tmp, and
>  that prevented logging in as a normal user (it'd immediately log
>  out, straight after attempting to log in). Not that I needed to
>  graphically log in as root to fix that, but I did need to get to a
>  web browser to research the cause, first. And I hate using Lynx,
>  seeing as someone will suggest it.

Lynx ??????? . It has been sometime since i have heard about it .
Yes i do recall viewing a web page with it in the days that i was using
minicom to fire up my dial up connection about 5 years ago . Well
i guess i would have to second u on that , since using lynx isn´t the
easiest thing to do .