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@netscape.net
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.