Re: Windowz convert wants to know why he should not be root???

From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:26:28 -0800

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:16:41 GMT, someone posing as David Carter donned
fireproof bloomers and chiseled in the wall:

> Howdy NG,
>
> I keep reading hints that my default mode of operation should not be
> logging in a root.
>
> If I'm the only one I want to be able to use my machine, and I built it
> (time and time again :-), why should I be a normal user?
>
> Thanks,
> David Carter

Throwing myt $.02 in here as a fellow Windows user...

..one of the things I hate about Windows is the all or nothing design. You
either are Administrator or you are a user (power/normal).

In Linux you can run as normal user yet still type in a root password any
time you want to do something that requires root permissions, such as YOU
or installing an RPM with YaST. You can then go about your business
confident that you're not mucking things up for the entire system.

I WISH Windows had this ability.

There was a thing I was researching while doing W2K conversions for the
county where we could use AD to manage installs for normal users while
having the windows installer files pushed out to the workstations and run
as administrator. (We were switching from a self-managed install paradigm
on 8,000+ Win95 boxes to the same number of W2K and XP boxes with reduced
permissions.)

In any case, during the past six months or so that I've been running SuSE
9.1 and 9.2 at home, I've never logged in as root. I find there is almost
no need to. I did login once as root to install a newer version of
OpenOffice than came with my (then) Mandrake 10.0 CD, but that screwed
things up, so I decided against ever doing that again.

Hope that helps! 

-- 
kai - perfectreign at yahoo dot com
www.perfectreign.com
...a palm tree nodded at me last night
he said, hey you look so pale...

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