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View Poll Results: What type of account do you use more regually?
Root 10 29.41%
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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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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For security reasons I only use root if needed.
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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

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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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?
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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Quote 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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Quote 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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su is substitute user? I always thought it was switch user!
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:eek:
what? I thought it was 'seduce user'
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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!
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Re: Do u use your root account on a regular basis?

I ususally root my **** right on in there like I'm not supposed to do... but I'm a born rooter... maybe I'll have to work on that... :o
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