On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 20:26 +0100, agraham wrote:
Please ignore all those that present horror stories and FUD about root, you have to learn somehow and the best way is to mess around as root.
Oh yes... like learning about firearms by playing russian roulette.
It ain't FUD about avoiding logging in as root, and doing everything as root. It's a fact it's a bad idea. Those who start off doing damn fool things, like that, learn all sorts of bad habits that they find very hard to break.