root vs user

[Mitch Wiedemann]

Hi Nino,

First, I'd like to advise that you don't log in as root at all *ever* 
unless you have no choice.

To do system maintenance I'd advise this procedure:
1. Log in to your normal user account
2. Open a "Terminal" or "Console" window
3. su (to gain root privileges)
4. Do what you need to do.
5. exit the root terminal when you're done.

I NEVER log in as root unless I've done something to completely hose my 
normal user account. :)

As for your other questions, are you using KDE or Gnome or other desktop 
environment?


Pinco wrote:

> Hi,
> as I wrote in other messages, as root I've uninstalled Mozilla 
> Firebird and installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
> The all system seems work well (even if I still don't understand why I 
> don't have libxcom.so with my openoffice), but when I login as a user 
> I still have the icon of the Firebird on the desktop bar and menu and 
> I don't have access to Thunderbird.
>
> Somewhere - one of the online manuals - I've read that during the 
> process of creating a new user, after the creation or modification of 
> the directories/files /etc/passwd /home/USER /etc/shadow /etc/group 
> /etc/gshadow, copies the default user settings from /etc/skel/ to 
> /home/USER, but in my system this folder seems empty!
>
> Can someone give me some explanation?
> How can my user have the same root desktop and applications?
>
> Thanks a lot and, please, don't forget that I'm still learning!
>
> Ciao,
> Nino


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