Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: toby989@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:16:31 -0800
alrightalright, I see running as root is not so good. Yes on my windows, I am running always, not as admin, but as user having admin rights.
Independent of that, what I was thinking is that if there is, and will be, only one user (apart from root) on the system, then there is no need to distinguish between multiple users, and a specific user folder is obsolete.
Then, from the mess that I saw over the years in windows, some (many) applications give a s**t about the personalized "My Documents" folders and store user documents somewhere on c:. I expect this ignorance be the same for suse. On the other hand, where should data sit that I serve to the user on the system and potentially other users on the network. I guess my question is, where does for example MySQL store the data, under the "Documents" folder of my user?
But I see that I may need to switch to relative paths, away from my years-old way of having absolute paths (c:\project\project1\code).
T
Garry Knight wrote:
Paul J Gans wrote:.
The only function root normally has is to get system mail when
the system wants to complain to root.
Or to install software packages.
Or to make changes to config files in /etc.
Or to read -rwx------ files in /etc or elsewhere.
Or to configure new hardware.
Or to install fonts to be available for all users.
Or to add new users and groups to the system, or delete or change them.
Or to configure the firewall.
Or...
Yes, I know those can all be done by any user that's a member of an admin
group, e.g. wheel, or by anyone listed in /etc/sudoers, but they have root
privileges when they do so, even if they're not the user with id=0. So
there's really only a semantic difference rather than a functional one.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Paul J Gans
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Rajko M.
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Nikos Chantziaras
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- References:
- how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: toby989
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Nikos Chantziaras
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Paul J Gans
- Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Garry Knight
- how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- Prev by Date: Re: konqueror to remember my view
- Next by Date: Re: How to enable ssi in 10.3
- Previous by thread: Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- Next by thread: Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
