On 20/01/2011 02:27 πμ, Tim wrote:
It's been years since I've logged in as root, since I
haven't had to
do that.
Well i do usually login as root , i have been doing so for the last
few years , ok i know it´s not the best thing to do but let´s say it´s
just a bad habbit.
When I did do it, to fix up some problem that I'd created,
it was a simple matter to "su - tim" to get a terminal in
my user
account, to (more safely) do something while I was in the middle of
repairing the problem I caused in the first place.
For what it's worth, I'd somehow upset the permissions of /tmp, and
that prevented logging in as a normal user (it'd immediately log
out, straight after attempting to log in). Not that I needed to
graphically log in as root to fix that, but I did need to get to a
web browser to research the cause, first. And I hate using Lynx,
seeing as someone will suggest it.
Lynx ??????? . It has been sometime since i have heard about it .
Yes i do recall viewing a web page with it in the days that i was using
minicom to fire up my dial up connection about 5 years ago . Well
i guess i would have to second u on that , since using lynx isn´t the
easiest thing to do .