Subject: Re: Why not use root all the time?
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 16:38:25 AKDT
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:33, Neil Moomey wrote:
>
> Thanks for everyones the advice. You convinced me. Now I just have to
> figure out how to import all my Evolution email and contacts into a
> user account and undo all the file permissions that are now root. It
> might be easier to re-install everything.
>
> Neil
In a console in X as root:
1. adduser neil
2. 'cp -a /root/evolution /home/neil/'
3. 'cd /home/neil'
4. chgrp -R neil evolution'
5. chown -R neil evolution'
6. evolution&
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