logged in as root where is my other user?

adrienk · April 14, 2011, 4:40pm

I have two uesers on the syste - me (Adam) and the root. when I log in as root where is the adam user contents? in windows its under users. in suse it should be under users. but where?

this may not belong here and sorry if it doesnt.

martin_helm · April 14, 2011, 5:20pm

adrienk wrote:

>
> I have two uesers on the syste - me (Adam) and the root. when I log in
> as root where is the adam user contents? in windows its under users. in
> suse it should be under users. but where?
>
> this may not belong here and sorry if it doesnt.
>
I really hope that you do not login to the desktop as root.
The users files are in the folder /home

DenverD · April 14, 2011, 6:30pm

On 04/14/2011 05:06 PM, adrienk wrote:
>
> I have two uesers on the syste - me (Adam) and the root. when I log in
> as root where is the adam user contents? in windows its under users. in
> suse it should be under users. but where?

i understand (a little) how the Administrator account is handled in
Windows and can say it is totally different here…

here we call the administrator ‘root’ and you should never log into
KDE/Gnome/XFCE or any other *nix-like graphical user interface desktop
environment as root…

doing so 1) opens you up to several different security problems if you
(for example) browse the net, 2) too many too easy ways to damage your
system no matter how careful your actions (for example: well documented
cases of unintended change of ownership of ~/.ICEauthority and
~/.Xauthority from user to root sometimes occurs), 3) and, anyway
logging into KDE/etc as root is never required to do any and all
administrative duties…

so, always log in as yourself, and “become root” by using a root powered
application (like YaST, File Manager Superuser Mode) or using “su -”,
sudo, kdesu, or gnomesu in a terminal to launch whatever tool is needed
(like Kwrite to edit a config file)…read more on all that here:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://tinyurl.com/4nsaqst
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd

additionally: after logging into KDE/Gnome/etc as root, if you
experience problems (for example, with uncommanded file ownership and
permissions changes) and if you can provide us with details of what you
were doing while you were logged in as root, that would help us identify
if there’s a bug that needs to be fixed…thanks for your help…

additionally, you have already noted that the file system layout of the
two systems is quite different…more on that here:

http://tinyurl.com/6kp2uyu

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