Poll: On your linux box do you run day-to-day as root, or only special circumstances?

[Noriaki]

On your linux box do you run day-to-day as root, or only special circumstances?

This is for people that use a Linux machine as their main web surfer/emailer/etc/etc.

 

[Brian07]

I use my linux box daily, but I'm careful with the root account. I only log in as root when its neccessary to do so. For everyday use I've got a seperate account set up.

 

[psychobabble]

I run routine work in normal user in a general group like genusr;
while typically logon as root on another virtual terminal w/o gui,
so when you need to use sledgehammer, just alt-f***

while on my win pc, i am always domain admin, cause windows is
bulletproof ...

laugh?

 

[Noriaki]

<< I run routine work in normal user in a general group like genusr;
while typically logon as root on another virtual terminal w/o gui,
so when you need to use sledgehammer, just alt-f***

while on my win pc, i am always domain admin, cause windows is
bulletproof ...

laugh? >>

lol deal. I'll give that a laugh.

 

[TonyRic]

I always log in with my account and sudo for anything that I may need... Root is never logged into on my machine unless I am making system level changes and even then I can usually do them by using sudo...

 

[LocalEmperor]

I only log in as root when I really, really need to. I normally use a general user account and su in the console when I need to do root operations.

~LE

 

[Koeppster]

I am ALWAYS logged on as myself. If I do have to be root for certain changes (installing a program after compiling it as myself), I use /bin/su.

Never leave an term lying around with root logged in...especially if you have a roommate, no matter how much you trust him/her.

And don't ever allow root to access the machine remotely (e.g., ssh or--GASP--telnet). Log in as yourself and then su to root.

 

[Shuxclams]

<< Log in as yourself and then su to root. >>



Nuff said..............








SHUX

 

[Elledan]

For everyday-stuff I use a normal account. If I need the root account I either use su or log out and back in (only when heavily updating the system).

Strangely, I use solely the Administrator account in Win2k. Weird.

 

[Armitage]

I always login/work as a normal user, and use su when neccesary.
The only time I log in completely as root is when setting up a box or doing major maintenance/re-config (and sometimes not then either).

 

[n0cmonkey]

To the one person who uses root constantly: HAHA
I hope that person admits it so I know who NOT to help.

I leave root logged into a locked terminal and use sudo for most of the root work. But for certain commands or if I am doing a lot of system work I will su to root.

 

[DaHitman]

I run as a normal user in Linux... ITS TOOOOO easy to just su to root and do whatever &quot;admin&quot; stuff needs to be done... so you are pretty much very secure and stuff only gets run as root if YOUR WANT it too.


WHEREAS, In my Win2000 I run as Admin because their is NO WAY to &quot;su&quot; and run a single program and exit without totally Logging out... thats YET ANOTHER REASON why Windows sucks compared to Unix if you ask me.

 

[rbV5]

Actually, you can use the &quot;run as&quot; command to run as the Adminisrator in Win2k for individual applications, install software and make system changes. So I guess its probably not smart to do it in Win2k either, but its what I do.....now if I could only figure my refresh rate problem in X...hmmm

 

[Bremen]

Running root for normal use is suicidal. Two weeks ago I cleaned out my home dir by accident because of a poorly written shell script, imagine if I had been root *shudder*