I want to give my user account SuperUser privileges.
In Yast, the root group to the users list of groups.
Yet, at the command line, as the user, I cannot run any prileged programs like yast itself.
The root group won’t do that.
It’s a bad idea to give you account su privileges without a password. It’s just as bad as logging in as root. If you do that, it’s only a matter of time before you shoot yourself in the foot by messing up the system.
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Agreed. If you need to do something that requires privileges then just
use sudo/gnomesu/kdesu/su to give yourself privileges temporarily. Doing
otherwise (running with ‘root’ privileges permanently even if you are not
actually the root user) just means you don’t know how to use your computer
properly. With windows there may not be another way, but that’s
microsoft’s fault (mostly). With any other OS (or at least any OS
designed properly) running as root is only needed to do things that modify
the entire system. In those cases you need to do something using power
you should be consciously thinking, “I need to do something root-powered”
so you also are conscious enough to click ‘No’ if you get any weird popups
at the same time asking you to install some neat software that is actually
malicious.
Good luck.
ken yap wrote:
> The root group won’t do that.
>
> It’s a bad idea to give you account su privileges without a password.
> It’s just as bad as logging in as root. If you do that, it’s only a
> matter of time before you shoot yourself in the foot by messing up the
> system.
>
>
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On Sat April 4 2009 02:08 am, ab@novell.com wrote:
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> Agreed. If you need to do something that requires privileges then just
> use sudo/gnomesu/kdesu/su to give yourself privileges temporarily. Doing
> otherwise (running with ‘root’ privileges permanently even if you are not
> actually the root user) just means you don’t know how to use your computer
> properly. With windows there may not be another way, but that’s
> microsoft’s fault (mostly). With any other OS (or at least any OS
> designed properly) running as root is only needed to do things that modify
> the entire system. In those cases you need to do something using power
> you should be consciously thinking, “I need to do something root-powered”
> so you also are conscious enough to click ‘No’ if you get any weird popups
> at the same time asking you to install some neat software that is actually
> malicious.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
> ken yap wrote:
>> The root group won’t do that.
>>
>> It’s a bad idea to give you account su privileges without a password.
>> It’s just as bad as logging in as root. If you do that, it’s only a
>> matter of time before you shoot yourself in the foot by messing up the
>> system.
>>
>>
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Even with Microsoft Windows it is a bad idea to normally run with
administrator privilege, albeit 98% of home users do. From XP on you can run
perfectly well with a limited account. When you must install software or
other such tasks then log in as administrator, otherwise run as a limited
user. IMHO the main reason for the vulnerability of Windows is users running
with administrative privilege.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
I’ll chime in and say not only is that a bad practice, you will likely break things in the process. If you want to give yourself more access, then “man sudo” as well as perhaps, at MOST, giving yourself group membership to wheel.
Otherwise, what is any difference in what you are doing to using sudo or su and doing thing as UNIX/Linux intended, using root as the super user and your user to segment your own faults to your data alone and not take the system down with it.