[X Newbies] How the Grinch Stole 45GB of My Hard Drive

[Bill Reburn]

That's a big assumption that everyone is that comfortable with using the
Terminal (and that they even know what sudo is).

I agree with your comment, but as much fun as it is to bust open the
Terminal and hand code - I HATE doing that.

I don't know, it's not that hard for me to forget I am logged in as Root.

On 11/30/02 9:11 AM, "Kirk McElhearn" <kirklists at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On 11/30/02 16:05, "Fred Mallett" <fredm at famece.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> You will get many permission errors if you are not root, thus you may
>> not find where the stuff is hiding unless you enable root login, and use
>> that account.
> 
> I would suggest not logging in as root, but using sudo instead. If you
> forget you have logged in as root, then make a mistake, it's reinstall time.
> 
> 
> Kirk
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Bill Reburn