Re: [LUG] Advice - Root Log-in

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting David Bell <grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Friday 31 March 2006 11:34, William Fidell wrote:
> > Steve Marvell wrote:
>
> > Yup, you only need todo rm -rf * in your home directory once.
>
> I quite understand.  But as a simple home user, averse to using CL interfaces
> and having no servers etc., this would not be likely.  I use root purely to
> call up the odd system utility eg. Synaptic, and on rare occasions edit/tweak
> the odd system file.

In that case, why not use SUDO?

It works well under Ubuntu.

Rob




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