Cookies and Firefox

[volvoguy]

Ubuntu handles root a little different than other distros (but a lot
like Apple OS X). You correctly assumed that the installer asked you
for a normal username - and that is a normal user. Instead of an
actual root account, Ubuntu uses "sudo" which preceedes whatever
command you're giving (ie. "sudo pico file.txt"), and it DOES want
your normal user password. I think the basic idea is that you can't
forget you're logged in as root and do a bunch of damage. Having to do
the extra step of "sudo-ing" and entering in a password makes it a lot
more obvious what you're doing.

So, it sounds like you're doing everything correctly. :-) For the
record though, one way to tell if you're actually logged in as root,
is that your prompt in a terminal window will say -
"root at machine-name:/home #". When you're logged in as a regular user,
the prompt will look like this - "username at machine-name: /home $".

To keep it on the original topic, if you're running Firefox from a
terminal window by typing this - "sudo firefox" - you're running it as
root, and that's not a good idea. If you search the mailing list
archives, there have been a number of posts about fixing things when
Firefox is run as root.


Hope that helps! 


-- 
Aaron

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