Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 00:02 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > about your rant:
> >
> > Actually Fedora has been installed with a user account. This is  my
> > home (real) desktop machine, I have been logging as root for years,
> > without any issue (at least not issues I am aware of). Is it really
> > so
> > bad?
> I'm sorry to use LMGTFY, and it's not meant as a put down, but it's
> an
> indication of what you should read:
>
>    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+you+should+not+login+as+root
>
> There's very few things that Unix/Linux people agree on, but one of
> them is that you do not habitually login as root.

I'd put it more strongly: if using a GUI (rather than a text console)
you should *never* log in as root. If you need temporary root powers
for some admin task, use su or sudo from your normal user account.

poc