Re: root vs user

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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






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