Logins

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Sep 12 04:42:11 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:45 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> If you log on as root (regardless of whether under a GUI) then every
> program in your process tree runs with root authorization.

Not to mention that you don't have the normal access to your own files
(a different path), and any files you save probably won't be accessible
to yourself if you log on as yourself, later on.

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