User Accounts

[Anthony]

How many people have more then one user account on their computer?

Don't include the Admin account if you don't use it.

I have two accounts... My account, and then a limited account for any other family member who might use the computer (only one of my brothers knows the password though).

[Master Jedi]

Just one acount, mine (which is the admin as well).

[DADINK13]

What he said. Except that I rigged it so my admin account doesn't load anything up at startup. The Start Menus are NOT shared (due to meticulous maintanence), and the Registries are not either. It's a pain in the ass to do, but it's better than having to wait for everything to load up at startup with both accounts.

[Timelessblur]

I only have my admin account. I wish I could just change the admin acount to my name with out making a new acount because it will be a role pain in the ass to get everything moved. That and i hate having 2 accounts on boot up and not being able to deleted one of them.

Now Before I refomated I had a 2nd account on the computer that my family could sign on to my laptop with. Normal it was my sister who would like to play around on it. I think when I go home I will just turn off all the passwords proctetion I have in the bios and my account so I dont have to make another acount for her to play with if she wants. I trust her and my family because they know the rules for my laptop. It is mine so you dont mess around with any settings but they are free to mess around on it

[fuuucckkers]

I have 2. My regular user account, and Root. Which is similar to the Admin of Windows.. but it's not protected at all.
With root, unlike Windows, I can delete system files if I feel like it. Even ones that are currently in use. Hell, with the stroke of a few commands in my Bash Shell, I can erase my OS! (While I'm still using it !)

[BigHead]

on my linux box i just use my root account as my normal account cuz im too lazy to make another one

[insomica]

i only have one other then the Admin. account. I use to have more then one user account but some programs don't work right. I don't like it.

[Michael]

I have only one. Unless you count my root account, which I rarely if ever use (except when using sudo, or occasionally when I must log in as root).

[fuuucckkers]

on my linux box i just use my root account as my normal account cuz im too lazy to make another one

Definately not a good idea. You can accidently do something, and there's no reversing it depending on what you did.

When using root, most of the time system changes aren't confirmed with pop-up boxes and such, as compared to the normal user account.

[BigHead]

i dont have anything on my linux box so i can just reinstall

[Michael]

Using a system as root opens up a whole lot of security holes and flaws, as well as making it very simple to accidentally make mistakes, not to mention screw up file permissions without even doing anything or knowing. Bad idea.