[COLUG] laptop ease of use

[Patrick Blitz]

Here's my point of view to the issue:
My workstation is my workstation, it's behind a firewall and it doesn't
have anything open to the net.
There are not really a lot of email viruses for linux, and even if, mutt
and pine still won't bother with them.
So, why should i not be root on my workstation ? 
where's the real difference between using a sudo ALL or a root account?
yeah, i can screw the system up more easily... but why i have multiple
partitions, and really are way to lazy to use anything else but root.
sure, i wouldn't run any service to the outside as root, and as soon as
the machine has some running, then you need to be careful.
but a laptop is a laptop, and you probably won't be using it as a server
either way.

I know that nobody seems to like the idea of root as a normal user, but
for the use of a linux desktop i think it's okay.. and i know what i'm
doing, so i hopefully won't do a rm -rf / tmp
well, that's my idea of root and root like privelges, and to be honest..
who is really so not lazy that he would always su to root when he need's
to change the smallest thing??

Patrick

Am Don, 2003-07-24 um 01.29 schrieb J. Jacob Hopkins:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:05:14PM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> 
> > If you want an account that really has root-like priveleges, just do
> > what I do: use the root account.
> 
> If you want an account that has root-like priveleges full time, use the
> root account... but not as your login or default account.
> 
> If you want an account that has root-like priveleges part time or with
> restrictions, you can use sudo.
> 
> > People will probably tell me I'm stupid for running as root all the
> > time, but I lost more data during my two-week experiment with running
> > as a non-root user,
> 
> Did you run this experiment on a system you had previously used, beyond
> setup, exclusively as root?
> 
> > due to apps silently discarding stuff when I
> > thought they were saving, 
> 
> This concerns me, were these induced by permission problems, software
> bugs or the two in concert?
> 
> > Like I said, I do run certain apps in their own account, especially
> > server stuff.
> 
> I do the same.  It helps leverage something that running as root by
> default steamrolls over - file permissions.
> 
> Doing everything as root is a rotten way to solve permissions problems.
> 
> Jacob
> jacob at teched.net
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