On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 18:12, Terry R. Grier wrote: > Hello. > > I have FC3 on my laptop. I will be the only one using it in a personal/home > setting. > > I made a log in for myself. > SHould I just log in as ROOT is it better procedure to login as my user name? > > T It is always recommended that you utilize the least privileges you can to get the job done. So use a personal account and when needed use su or sudo to elevate your privileges temporarily when needed. Once you have your system configured and packages installed there are very few things you need root access for. About the only thing you may need on a regular basis is when you run yum or up2date. Other than that there are some log files you will want to review on a regular basis but then you should have roots email redirected to your user account so you can get the logwatch reports. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war." -- Napoleon
