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Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

View Poll Results: What type of account do you use more regually?
Root	10	29.41%
Normal User Account	17	50.00%
I like cheese	7	20.59%
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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Aug 20th, 2003

Well, the runas isn't new.. its been there since NT. I just don't need the added effort. I know what I'm doing.

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Aug 21st, 2003

For security reasons I only use root if needed.

Open your mind, or shut your mouth.

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Aug 21st, 2003

I ran as root exclusively for about 6 years...

Nowdays I have the hardware to just
"startx -- :1" as root if I need a gui
90% of the time I just use the command line.

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Aug 21st, 2003

Hm,

There wasn't an option for me. I very rarely run as "root", but you really don't have too. I run myself using groups (god bless groups) and users. God bless chmod g+s and god bless sudo

Also, from reading this thread, I'm taking it that most of you think that "su" is short for "super user", it's actually short for "substitute user", you can run as any other user in the system, ie:

su <username>

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Re: Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Aug 22nd, 2003

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Originally Posted by Tekmaven

On linux, I am not guilty! I su whenever I feel like it, athough it sometimes is a pain in the ***. However, on Windows (Administrator account), I am 200% guilty.

The runas command was first introduced to Windows2k. There wasn't a runas command in WinNT4.0. There was a su.exe for WinNT4.0 , which was part of the NTresource kit.

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Originally Posted by subtronic

Hm,

There wasn't an option for me. I very rarely run as "root", but you really don't have too. I run myself using groups (god bless groups) and users. God bless chmod g+s and god bless sudo

Also, from reading this thread, I'm taking it that most of you think that "su" is short for "super user", it's actually short for "substitute user", you can run as any other user in the system, ie:

su <username>

Thanks, I always thought su was super user.
And don't forget to use su - "hyphen"
if you want to run your own .login instead of the user you su to.

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Nov 10th, 2003

su is substitute user? I always thought it was switch user!

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Nov 10th, 2003

:eek:
what? I thought it was 'seduce user'

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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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Nov 10th, 2003

Definition:

SU (substitute user) The Unix command which allows you to become another user after entering their password su is most often used without arguments in which case it defaults to user Root Some versions of Unix only allows this command to be used by members of the Wheel group.

Ahhh Look at all the contributions to the aid of(XP) viruses guilty as charged. :lol:
I only run on Root when its a must do!