that darned ROOT problem
Bo Grimes
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Wed Sep 28 16:32:13 UTC 2005
Janne Jokitalo wrote:
>Bo Grimes wrote:
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>>Right, but at this point my user account is the only account and by
>>default it can and must be able to.
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>True.
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>>This leaves me setting up other accounts.
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>Hmmm... with other distros, would you only use one account, that being root?
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>>Again, no biggie, but it hasn't been my habit to set up a lot
>>of accounts for a home pc nor has it been my practice to protect my user
>>account from my family.
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>So lemme get this straight, you want one account but you don't care your
>family members screwing up the system when they can do as they please with a
>password that's good for anything? No? Well, only thing I can think of is
>having a separate root account that can do administrative tasks, and another
>that can't, and what everybody could use. Follow thus far?
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Why do you take the tone that I'm an idiot?
>How does it differ from a situation where you don't have a root account at
>all, have that first account that has sudo powers, and then create another
>that can be logged in all the time so that it's open for everyone to use,
>but restricts them from doing damage?
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>I don't understand. You don't have to do separate accounts for every one of
>your kids and their pets too. Just create _one_ another.That's two, grand
>total. Not a lot. Think of that first account as root, and you have it.
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>What's the big problem?
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Easy. I didn't KNOW when I was setting the user account up during
install that IT WAS ROOT. This isn't so hard to understand. Every
other Linux I have ever installed apart from Linspire has had me set up
admin during install, so now why should I assume the regular user I
always use is now root with the same password? By the time I found out
I was running as my regular user, the one everyone knows.
It's easy to fix, sure, like dog crap on the floor, but that doesn't
mean you want to be forced to.
The point here is this is Linux. If I want just one user account why do
you care? I should be able to do that if I want and still have the
security of root. A seperate root password on install just makes sense.
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