Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcV2hhdA==?= a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use =?UTF-8?B?aXTigJ0=?= Date: 23 Jan 2026 22:36:08 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10koqeb$1i9u5$2@dont-email.me> <10kq1sl$314kf$1@news1.tnib.de> <10kq83d$20kk7$2@dont-email.me> <99t74mxr57.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <877btarlle.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <10ku3f8$3bc8q$5@dont-email.me> <10kvm93$3jknk$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net OcQVqa+udcxqpTYgcnEMVQUJnwwZHaEzvUnHv30CiEUpueKq1W Cancel-Lock: sha1:qwKrPtBZQ0P4oN7KCZXDlgMQU7Q= sha256:/VBOkk2TJegUERhJk1T0r0IoItM/hjWkF0L6CUlKSpQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81576 On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:32:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Lawrence D´Oliveiro wrote: >>On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:08:31 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> One? I'm talking about opening a dozen terminals as root. >> >>That many?? I may have a couple dozen terminal sessions open at the >>moment, but I don’t normally feel the need for more than 2-3 root ones. > > I didn't have a single root session open in months. Same here and that covers 4 different boxes each with a different distro. It's been a year or two since I've messed with postgres but iirc you did need a root session to get that set up and running.