[ale] Philosophy of "root"

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

I understand that "being root all the time" is a bad and dangerous
thing.  I spend a fair amount of time just doing various system
maintenance.  Most distributions set up a lot of the file system with
root/root uid/gid.  Up until now, I just su-ed to root when I need to. 
I'm wonder if it is better to change assorted files to another group
(and chmod g+sw), and add my userid to that group.   Then I could do
more without being root.  (I suppose I could just add myself to the root
group).

The question is, which is a better thing to do from a security/system
mgmt. point of view.

Thanks.
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David Corbin 		
Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc.
http://www.machturtle.com
dcorbin at machturtle.com
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