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["Morten" <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

>On mån, 08 feb 1999, you wrote:
>>I would start with root but only to add the new users like:
>>#useradd <name>
>>#passwd <name>
>>and then give the new password.
>>
>>(it's only the sys-op from hell that always runs as root !)
>>:)
>>

>Watch it !!! Been running Linux for over a year and just switched to a user :-)
>Ran like ROOT before >:->


Hmmm. That gives a new dimention to the famous VI-SIGH (comes in may flavours I usually prefer: Oh-s<beep>t or f<beep>k !!!) when you by accident remove /usr/local/var containing a db with 10.000.000+ records - May end a promising carrier quite fast! ;-)

Serious: I have been there working as root most of the time ... and it is in 98% of the time OK. but there is still those 2 % left - usually things that is performed on too much caffeine and too little sleep. Restore can be quite time consuming IMHO (especially at 2 am!).  :)

>***     Linux..... The choice of a thinking generation     *****
Couldn't agree more !!!! (and I've only been on Linux for a week now!) But on UNIX for ... half  a lifetime ;-)

Best regards

Morten