News : People logging in as root...
I've had this a few times now. People come to me saying they can't find items on the KDE menu such as "toXFCE". The problem turns out that they are logging into GDM as root. While this is totally your choice you should know that the desktop environments are not configured properly for root access. In addition to this it is highly unsafe to operate your system as root - a classic example I always give is "What if you run `rm -rf ./*` when you're in a hurry and accidentally omit the '.'?". The answer? You trash your system along with ALL local and remote mounted filesystems (provided you have them write-enabled). If you are logged in as a normal user you wont have the priviledges to do this. Keep that in mind. My advice is always login as "gentoox" and use a combination of `sudo` and `su` when you need root priviledges.Posted by ShALLaX on Friday, August 05 2005 @ 00:46:43 UTC
