Thanks Mitch for your advice. I'll follow it: I've always logged in as root!
As for my GUI I'm using Gnome.
I suspect that I have to make some kind of link (I don't know how to do that), but if so, should I always link the applications (folders) for every user I'll setup?
Ciao, Nino
Mitch Wiedemann ha scritto:
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
