Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

OS X is a multiuser and privilege-based computing environment that sequesters functionality based on various account types, such as administrator and standard accounts. This allows some users to have ...

One of my friend's says that it is a security hazard if I log in as root every time I log into my desktop PC. I usually just log in as root and do my usual thing (surfing the web, checking email, etc) ...