On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 04:36 -0400, Jerry W. Whitmire wrote: > > Man this really throw me off track if something is broken as root do not use root. leave it broken and go to user where it is not broken!! > How far will Fedora get if this kind of mentallaty is used ?? > Boy why did i not think of that myself ?? > Jerry W. Whitmire > Just a user of Fedora. > jerryw4386@xxxxxxxxxxxx > It's not that things are broken as root, they weren't designed to be used by a plain old user called "root". Root is the "superuser" the ultimate ruler of the whole system. Booting into the system as root is like having a car, that when someone approaches it, the doors open automatically, and when someone sits in the driver's seat, the engine starts automatically, and leaving it in the middle of a big city, going off somewhere for a few hours, and expecting it to be there when you get back. A miss-typed word or the wrong mouse movement or click, and ya might end up with an empty drive.
