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  Hello,

On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Meir Litmanovich wrote:

> > Do you login as "root" on your Linux machine?
> > If so - why??
> I do  . And I don't think it's reason to flame somebody . Whenever
> you once a five minits need to do "su" ,cause you need to mount something 
> or to install something or to do any other system maintainance work you'll
> begin to work under root  . 

No, you won't. You will work under your own username. You will have
another XTerm or VC with a root login on it, or, better yet, with your own
user SU'd to root on. 

Working as root is BAD. If you really have to work as root, at least SU to
your own user when you have to send mail!


			Bye,

				-Yaron.

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