Run As The Root Account

Note: This article will only make sense if you have any knowledge of Linux.

Stop being a sissy. Every time you sudo a command, you deserve to have your man card taken away.

You heard me. It's time to stop being a little girl. It's time to start using your computer like a man.

You can start by running as the root account. Do you ever get annoyed because you forgot to put sudo in front of a command and received a permission denied error? Oh that's funny, I wouldn't know about that. Because I'm not a baby.

Listen, running for root is not for everyone. If you are so incompetent that you can't even handle using bash without typing rm -rf / every few commands, just stop reading here. Go back to the Ubuntu forums where all of your problems are packaged away for you in nice binaries because you can't even handle installing a program from source.

See, it's not so scary.

First, move your crap to the root account. It's in /root. If your distro was stupid enough to not even create a root account and password on install, do that now. Just sudo su or sudo passwd and I guarantee that will be that last time you ever type that cowardly phrase.

Your first thoughts when moving all of your stuff from your home directory to root will be pleasant. Did you notice how everything was read fine, that you don't see anymore locks around your desktop, and that you suddenly have a full beard?

Go take the time to shave, you earned it.

Now that your account is all setup, go ahead, change a config file in /etc. Don't forget to not type sudo this time. What's that, a system update? Go ahead, run it straight on your terminal. Hey, Apache just updated, let's restart it. That'll be no problem on your root account.

Now I'll be honest, running as the root account is not merely a computer decision. It will affect your entire life. People will not longer cut you in the lunch line. You find yourself shaving two times a day. When you tell some idiot to go screw themselves, don't be surprised if they actually do it this time.

The point is, you are in control now. Not someone else. You. Maybe you feel like using a GUI app to mount a drive real quick. It's fun not typing in your password to do something as trivial as that.

Okay, imagine this scenario. Rambo, First Blood Part 1. Rambo decides instead of being powerful and running as root, he'll run as the user account john. So he caused a bit of a ruckus in the town, and Colonel Trautman, who is running as root, contacts Rambo over the radio. He tells the lowly user john to come back to base and surrender himself. In this version, Rambo turns himself in, instead of getting to shoot that sherrif a couple times.

That's probably the worst movie ever. Do you know why Rambo is awesome? Because he ran as root. He told the Colonel that he would be making his own decision that day, and I think we can all agree it was the right one.

Do you know why Colonel Trautman couldn't save Rambo with the helicopter in First Blood Part 2?

For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to start running in a user account. Too bad Murdock ran as root. That's why Rambo had to run as root, otherwise the command

killall commies

would get him a permission denied error. There was no time to ask Murdock for kill rights and frankly, he wasn't going to grant them.

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• Noam Chomsky
• Dr. Who
• morticia addams
• Nietzsche
• Elvira Mistress of The Dark
• sister morphine
• sally of the sawdust
• Scotty
• Dragonforce
• Jerry Garcia
• Casanova
• Arnica
• the Enterprise
• Babe Tomas de Torquemada
• Hitler's Aunt
• Barnacle Bill
• Aelita: Queen of Mars
• Rocket Man
• a couple of vodka and tonics
• Mrs. Robinson
• Mark E. Smith
• W.O.P.R.
• Marky Mark minus the Funky Bunch
• Frank Stallone
• cadet stimpy
• Deep Blue
• Large Hadron Collidor
• Janet Reno
• Sherman
• Patton
• Alpha Blondy
• Blondie
• julie brown
• Acidburn
• shit cake
• Amanda Huginkiss
• the guy who went to afghanistan, to organize wet burka contests
• John Wilmot
• Walt Whitman
• Tomas de Torquemada
• Steven Goodpaster
• shiitake mushrooms
• Jean D'Arc
• Zues "the man" Hernandez
• the entire Shmoo Group
• Bret Myers
• Canada
• Buford Pusser
• NitrusOxyde
• Ender Wiggin
• John Carmack
• lurch
• Albert Hofmann
• Dov Khenin
• Trees
• BOB and Glitch from ReBoot
• Dinah-Moe Humm
• Nixon
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• mr. potato head
• Ian Thorpe
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• Nenad
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• marvin mandel
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• Leonhard Euler
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• terrasect
• Alibaba and 40 thiefs
• Ron Burgandy
• Carmen Miranda
• Rodney Dangerfield
• The Beatles!
• Mr. Ed
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• Astro
• Matt Dillon
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• pavlov's dog
• pastaroni
• Marion Barry
• John McDrill
• Elmo
• Fannie Mae
• Seth MacFarlane
• Dubya
• DFragmentor of www.FNFF.net
• John Hinckley, Jr.
• the emo girl
• 42
• Dr. Ferry Porsche
• Gene Krupa
• Pinky & the Brain
• Salvador Dali
• White people
• the solid gold dancers
• "Heckuva Job" Brownie
• samtc
• MS Windows
• david canuel
• Corey Hart
• Kurt Vonnegut
• jana mrazkova
• guillaume "the wolf" carbonneau
• the two girls in 2g1c
• Black people
• Humpty Hump
• security cam 6
• Rama
• Captain Crunch (the hacker and the cereal box guy)
• Tony Marston
• Adam Smith
• Outcast_Aussie
• John Maynard Keynes
• Govenator
• Rance Mohammets
• Monica Lewinsky
• Ludwig Von Mises
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• Santa
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• p3n15
• Faust
• Ofey
• Metalica
• Beowulf
• AT&T
• LumpyG
• ME!!
• Franklin "Diarrhea" McGill
• 420
• Natural Tim
• Hammer
• Neil Strauss
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• Reedy
• Iron Man
• Michel Foucault
• robert bussars
• Dougw
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• Milton Friedman
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• Jim Morrison
• caric
• The Great and Powerful Oz
• Robert Oot
• Weighted Companion Cube
• Root of All Evil
• obama
• Plato
• osama
• Asia Carrera
• Little Bobby Tables.
• Tera Patrick
• Charles Babbage
• Howard T. Jones
• The first guy to lick a psychadelic frog
• 99E99
• Comic book guy
• Tipper Gore back in College
• Peter Griffin
• Hugh Fucken Hefner
• The Goddamn Batman
• Neil Peart
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• Erik Biemans
• Zero Cool
• Parad0X
• Frijoles Cajones
• Alexander Shulgin
• Ensha Nabrenn
• Fred Dusrt
• Vegeta
• Albert Camus
• Zaphod Beelbebrox
• Tom Jones
• Early Cuyler
• AXXO
• Sandy Bottoms
• Dave, Dee Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch
• Two girls did, but the cup ran as user
• Stalin
• TurboTas
• Peter Pantz!!!!!!!
• SterLo
• Hank Scorpio
• Egon Spengler
• Dilbert
• John Stamos
• WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!
• John McPalin, maverick bikini model
• Cereal Killer
• Mazinger Z
• The 50ft woman
• ultra magnus
• Jon Stewart
• Britney Spears
• brubaker
• John Galt
• Jokamel!
• David Bowie
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Mike Jittlov's Meriday
• Joss Whedon
• sergei rachmoninov
• Charles Fawcett
• Bill S. Preston, Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Oc and Hulk Hogan
• The Ultimate Showdown
• Mr Rogers
• Pappa Johns friend shrimp crust
• It's Robert Bussard, stupid!
• Ralph Wiggin
• FredHax
• Dan Adams
• Anunaki
• 4chan
• John Peel
• Trogdor
• Optimus Prime
• Max Powers
• michael york
• sean connery
• Ric Romero
• His Noodliness the FSM
• DeSean Jackson
• Mc Snake Puppy of the Infamous L.A. Dream Team
• Magestic Mage
• iPhone
• colin powell
• Sponge Bob
• Potato Smugglers "Run Root"
• Machito Ponce
• Ben Franklin
• MacSob
• david the gnoFUCK
• FPS Doug. Boom! Headshot!
• paulpbaker
• blackice
• jay & grant from ghost hunters
• Finley Harlocker
• Nipples Montoya
• Kooky Smoov
• turtles
• Kenneth P. Twinam
• Noel
• superAIDS
• C-C-C-Combobreaker
• Deckard Cain
• Dr. Mard
• barbie
• carl
• ET
• Brian Boitano
• pablos.
• grace murray hopper
• Bobo.
• Pamela Anderson
• snoopy
• I accidentally a fleshlight
• Samus
• Thomas Paine
• no
• Bronson Blackmore
• cheeseburgler
• Carl Sagan
• ,II:I::II:I:::.:.:I:III:I:... ....::::... . :
• Ivan Drago
• Admiral Ackbar
• ME
• Wolf Blitzer
• Kermit Neville
• Mel Gibson/Danny Glover
• Joe Don Baker
• Clarence Boddicker
• Balzac
• Nutsack
• Mordac
• Timothy Leary
• Steve Vai
• Jerry Lewis
• <script>alert('root');</script>
• fofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofo
• Brian Peppers
• Frondar
• Tiger Fai
• LSD FOR PRESIDENT!
• DESU DESU
• GNAA
• Will Jones
• Big Fat Long Meat
• zarbz_talons
• Peepee. Also, poopoo.
• Wally's pet termite
• Morgoth
• Ilúvatar
• Joan of Arc
• John Tittor
• Tito Puente
• McBain
• The RIAA
• Sid Meier
• cockheads run as root
• dick sucker
• dr Pepper
• Ralph Wiggum
• Harpo Marx
• marvin
• Winston Churchill
• Peter the Great
• 127.0.0.1
• mAcRoS
• Ahmadi Nejad
• Tony Blair
• garyshood
• <h1>garyshood</h1>
• PoHaPe Programmer
• comfoplace.com
• Automan
• ma bite
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Mohit Soni
• The homeless guy that whistles to you who's not really homeless
• Germanlinux
• wibaje
• Manou "The Dead God" Tepish
• Big McLargeHuge
• Aal
• Ville-Matias Heikkilä
• satish K V V
• Fedor
• Superstar Rajnikanth
• Captain Viajykanth
• clops
• The Bad Motherfucker
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rocks!!!
• Abdullah Dada
• Saleem Badurally Adam
• NO U!
• John BP
• root
• The One
• Ahmet Elkoyunu
• David Copperfield
• shogon
• Ronald Regan
• Chairman Mao
• Machiavelli
• Barney 'suit up' Stinson
• I love you
• Melissa
• doG
• Loki
• RustyNails
• u r wasting yur time if u got here
• cvety
• Yer Maw
• Les Claypool
• van Awesome
• Buckethead
• Kevin Mitnik
• Harry S Truman
• Ibn Saud
• Isnochys
• Bob Dole
• hello.jpg
• Fabio Takata
• Captain Beefheart
• That "So called" Anarchist, Dog Hating TrustaFarian from St Werburghs
• Hemmoroids
• GOD
• Captain Ahab
• Tasword Two
• init
• General George S. Patton
• Mystery
• wheel
• Root
• your mom
• grich
• urbansheep
• JFK, but look where it got him!?
• Everybody
• Lord Xenu
• Lynard Skynard
• www.zr2usa.com
• Dan Kaminsky
• tramshed
• Frank Sinatra
• Al Capone
• uhm, sudo?
• Lolita
• Marenco
• Cezar Oliveira e Rogerio Melo
• Max Headroom (can't believe it posted previously!)
• ^(it's not posted)^
• Golum
• Serenity
• Now!
• Jesse Ventura
• Tom Peters
• Michael Westin from Burn Notice
• Allyourbase R. Belongtoroot
• Richard Simmons
• Ad-Rock, MCA, Mike D
• Sara Palin
• Boba Fett
• Malcom Reynolds
• Dr. Girlfriend
• waszi
• Hot Rod
• Ted Kaczynski
• hot rod
• Chim
• Colonel Sanders
• solussd
• Carrot Top
• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
• GGM
• The Pirate Zombie Le Chuck
• Herc the Turk
• FOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFO
• Antony
• ankan
• jqr
• pentolino
• gcanna
• Berlusconi
• vineet gupta
• Tay Zonday, fame choclate rain
• Dolfje
• Chretien
• jah
• Gar Roberts
• Gary Roberts
• Gene Pavlovsky
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Nicola Tesla
• A Man Called Sloan
• Jack Layton
• Jack Tripper
• mckt
• El Teto Medina
• Barry
• cd barry_roots_my_machine
• The chick in that Hansons band
• Victor Sueiro
• The Verve
• Evil Witch Queen
• I accidently the whole root =
• root beer
• Octocat
• Judas Iscariot
• German Goo Girls
• Old Yeller
• Graciela
• Pelu
• my willy
• whores
• Roger "Race" Bannon
• Jeff Stelling
• apache
• GI Joe
• su root
• shrek
• darknesses!
• Drugs that took Dino Dvornik away
• Haag tribunal
• My Cock
• Blackbeard the Pirate
• Dr Shitbags
• Thor
• Bern
• Benito Camela
• Yamimoto nocamina
• Elva Gayo
• Aquiles Meo de la Torre
• Tristan
• E gordo Porcel
• Olmedo
• TU VIEJA!
• Nerbles Porkchop
• the Tee Oh Double Dee
• The Doctor
• Vernon Koekemoer
• Alexander the Great
• Almost anyone whose name is now suffixed by "the Great"
• Your cars is the gotem p
• Terry Wogan
• Dale Winton
• Your mother
• The Starkhawk
• Robot Terror
• Juicy Jackson
• Hitler
• El Chavo del 8
• design
• Sauron
• Ransom
• Sunshine on my god damn shoulders John Denver!
• junaid
• Don diego de la Vega
• Scott Mills
• POLLO from http://www.tampaforums.com
• 8============D
• Satchmo
• dhs
• The Dread Pirate Roberts
• i told u i wuz hardcore
• Tina Turner
• Ian Lewis
• www.runescape.com
• Sam Fisher
• www.sam-network.com
• Chingo Bling
• IM THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH
• Dracula
• Illuminat23
• homoludens
• tbone
• Bill Joy
• Daniel Plainview
• Babypie
• Bud Dwyer
• George Bush [NOT]
• Awesome McNuggets
• OOLOLLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLLOLLOOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLLLOLOLLOLOLLLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLLLOLOLOLLOLOLL
• ha
• William S. Burroughs
• Arturas from http://www.arturasserver.com
• Ivor Hardon
• Vasily Zaitsev
• Gary Gygax
• CHAD FUCKING HALL
• Dude above me is a noob.
• Dont talk shit about gary gygax
• Om nom nom nom
• Fap fap fap
• OGC
• Go-kart with flames.
• Pedobear
• I'm not talking about Gary Gygax, I'm talking about Chad Noobface Hall!
• Tux
• I beat my kids
• echo `rm -rf /etc/passwd`
• Knightshade on ISCABBS
• Gump, Forrest Gump
• George Bush, Eater Of Babies
• THAT MOTHERFUCKING SMART GUY
• CEREAL KILLER
• Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• FUCK
• Captain Falcon
• Link "using final smash"
• James Brown
• John Connor
• Robert Anton Wilson
• Mike Patton
• The number 7 and the letters C and F
• Shutruk Nahunte
• My Cousin Vinny
• Ghandi
• Dr. Whi
• err Dr. Who
• Mother Teresa
• rm -rf /
• Crono
• userdel `whoami`
• This guy!
• </ul>hallo
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• [SKV] Niki
• United States Marine Corps
• Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller
• victor wooten
• mano
• Ki-Chi-Mi
• Swag Man
• Arlina Solestia
• su -
• Johnah McPalin
• Diego Maradona
• jo mama
• me
• manophat
• PHARMACY
• Lila H.
• Hypnodisc
• Ganondorf
• Little John Drop Tables
• Richard Feynman
• Colby Buzzell
• Shortbus
• Red Flayer
• Hypnotoad
• Fox Mulder
• Dana Scully
• The Killing Joke
• Tchell Dahhn
• Heywood Jablowme
• Gary Brolsma
• Khan
• Duey Finster
• '; DROP TABLE roots;
• Odin
• '; BITE ME; --
• Angus Young
• Zefram Cochrane
• Blackberry Dragon
• Tim O'Rourke
• Polecat
• Overbear
• Booga
• Dim a as String
• Jack of Jack Links Jerky fame
• Bananaman
• Bjork
• Bowser before he was 0wn3d by Mario
• G1 running Android
• Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7
• Noel ran as root one time. What a good time that was...
• Edward Norton of American History X
• Lauren Butler (Girl from Diggnation Episdoe #175 38:00)
• Nils Breunese
• Sietsuh!
• lavacano201014
• ContR
• jeffy jlaix
• tobias weis
• r00t
• Dan C-C
• I am Jack's Root Account
• ROOT on wheeels!
• Dave's Dad
• Judge Reinhold
• Dick Hertz
• evil fire j
• Felix the Cat
• Jack Skellington
• yngwie malmsteen
• Not Linus Torvalds
• roots bloody roots
• Ninjas
• Craig
• rus
• James Fucking Phillips
• BRUMANON REPRESENT
• betheb
• Pippo
• You're mom
• <foo>
• Abby from NCIS
• Jethro Gibbs Bitchezzz
• The invisibles!
• Frodo
• Dan The Plain Captain from "Dan Capitan de Plai"
• Jerry Miculek
• Your mum
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Jack Sparrow
• Edward James Olmos' or 1=1 --
• Kirk Cameron
• The Shmoo Group
• panalbish
• Zezima NERD!
• Gertjaars EVEN BIGGER NERD!
• Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap
• Phoenix Stratemeier
• my huge cock is in control you motherfuckers..
• azwobmoaj
• Bill Gates and all M$
• /etc/passwd
• cat /etc/passwd | mail bill.gates@microsoft.com
• system32
• Paul Martin
• shotacat
• Spiderman
• Playboy
• Conan the Barbarian
• FUCK YOU I'M AN ANTEATER!
• Hitman
• Gerald Jay Sussman
• Courage Wolf
• Kamina
• dad
• Kane
• Albert Wesker
• UID 0
• Enoch
• Johnny Rotten
• Black Mage
• Your mom
• Quixote
• Enoch Root
• EINSTIEN
• my penis
• Bill clinton
• dESU DESU, ME
• SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Davy Crocket
• bollocks
• <b> ME </b>
• Barrage Time
• Al <IRL ROOT
• Syd Barret
• root runs as Chuck Norris!!
• Manoj
• mXe
• LSU
• TheManLouisianaFace
• In Soviet Russia, root runs YOU!!!
• kngtfallen
• Spaceman Spiff
• Duffman
• atommica
• Jebus
• ' OR 1=1
• Ghengis Kahn
• Hilary Duff
• Paris Hilton
• Mitch Bucannon
• Blake C.
• Sam
• Goose
• http://www.google.com
• tom waits
• Theron Rabe
• spiderman
• gilligan
• mudkip
• catholic priests
• Strong Bad
• SeÅ„or Goatse
• mr.bookman from good times
• john mccain didnt,
• jesus the christ
• chuck norris
• a butt
• Moverine
• marcan
• betty boob
• Dennis Ferguson
• sammy j.
• iPwn
• The Godfather
• Bruno (Sacha Cohen)
• Your Mom
• Adrian Lamo's amusement at arriving here via Google Alert for earlier version of list
• jf
• Lee Choon Siong
• Michael jackson was here
• a pretty cool guy
• Somebody Cool
• NOT Obama
• House
• my awesome emo hair
• TRON
• The Guy with the beard in the first picture.
• zarecz
• me, yes it's me
• <scr img"lol.jpg">
• gulsvart
• Steve Harris
• Orac (Blake's7)
• Royce Gracie
• Lord Voldemort.
• Remy from Ratatouille.
• Matt Bernath
• that lan party
• Matt's Uncle
• Mr. D
• IDK my BFF Jill
• Mr.jpg
• tio1.jpg
• norway
• Tycho Brahe
• Derek K
• DE BAAS
• <xmp>
• DementuZ
• galskapen
• solar
• Ohura
• King Rollo
• Junior Johnson
• Jack's Null reference pointer
• That Guy
• Ludde
• some douche bag
• Zezima.. not
• Cvik
• JIMMY IS THE BEST EVER
• Ya mum
• DrFoo
• V
• The Punisher
• Adam_the_1st
• Ph4Lc0N
• Op4
• stone
• Bob Ross
• Bill Cosby
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• Curtis "Pusherman" Mayfield
• la_mi_fava_a_riposo
• Dog Man Boat
• Daniel Gasparotto
• your mother
• COCKS
• Commander Keen
• Krotus
• http://www.thedarkelement.com
• Zordon
• The vagina that gave birth to the 19 pound baby.
• Balloon Boy
• Anyone named Vladimir
• ^^^This guy
• ^^^ That guy
• ^^^Those guys
• pac man
• ryan
• root ur
• mum
• Freddy Krueger
• The Tiger from Siegfried & Roy
• El Puto Amo
• Yo ya no sudo, estoy fresquito y bien!!!!!
• Mr. Dono Treply
• Andy Mcnab
• Bart Simpson
• Waffles of Soggy
• Houdini
• Racist bastards
• o,0 <= This guy
• Mr. Kaizer
• Igor
• F3ar
• Iron Thunder
• Mr. Lenzi
• Robert Plant (in his Led Zepplelin days, NOT solo career)
• marie curie
• Vlad the Impaler
• Cyanogen
• JesusFreke
• Borg Queen
• Me!
• CoCo
• ಠ_ಠ <- that guy
• Ryan Kearney
• Teague McRoot
• Lindows Users
• Julian67
• Pee-wee Herman
• All your root are belong to us!
• Mike Martz
• sir fer
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Mussolini
• Christer Pettersson
• Gustav Vasa
• Ayn Rand
• Hayer
• Brandon
• Zaphod Beeblebrox
• SarahC
• Henry Dorsett Case
• Isaac Asimov
• Dr. Manhatten
• You.
• boemba
• t-rex
• SPC
• Not E, E is a pussy
• RoflCopter
• <a href="www.goatse.cx">Click</a>

Do you know anyone else that needs to be added to this list?

And you'll never be as great as any of the people on that list. Enjoy your meaningless life.

I participated in a thread on the VLC forums where running as root was a major issue. Basically, VLC had implemented code that blocked the root account from running the video player. It was hardcoded into the program. The reason for this was because some of the developers felt that nobody should run VLC on the root account, even though it would work fine.

Us root users made our case for running VLC on whatever account we want, and some pansy named Remi Denis-Courmont kept trying to argue that we shouldn't be running as root in the first place, so we have no business demanding that VLC removes their idiotic and unnecessary root check.

Thankfully, a developer named dionoea was able to come to a compromise with us. She added a compile time option that allowed VLC to be ran under the root account. The USE FLAG "run-as-root" was introduced into Gentoo's portage so that VLC can be compiled this way. Thank you, dionoea.

If you can think of any other projects that give you a hard time about running as root, let me know. Remember, it's your computer. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do.

You are my hero.

09-17-2008

PROTIP: LOGIN WITH CAPS LOCK ENABLED TO ENJOY YOUR TRULY NEW AWESOMENESS

09-17-2008

ROOT IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

09-17-2008

Poor attempt at humor. In case anyone takes this seriously, don't do this. If you ever run a malicious program (or maybe just one with a bad bug), this can ruin or comprise your system.

09-17-2008

E - you're such a fag.
Gary - runasroot.com !

09-17-2008

You very much sold me on the whole beard thing.

*strokes

09-17-2008

I am the LHC and I run as Root!

09-17-2008

Goddamned!
That was one kickass post. My days as a user are over, baby! I'm turning on the root account.

I can't wait for the juicy women to start calling at the door!.

Yeah!!!

Tony? fuck tony, call me T-man!!

I mean it: call me T-man or I'll wring your tonsils through your asshole.

I wouldn't have said that before the article, this is me after reading the post.

Root Rules! [I don't know leet speak yet, give me a moment].

09-17-2008

You are on the track to success.

09-17-2008

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/bofh_2006_episode_8/
In the words of the immortal BOFH:
"So you're saying you always use root rather than your own account?"
"root is my own account..."

09-17-2008

A good start! Remember that real men also abstain from:

* Backups
* Wearing rubber (and / or seatbelts)
* Pulling out

Good luck.

09-17-2008

ROOT IS PURE CONCENTRATED PIMP.

09-17-2008

New Zealand Pwns Reddit :)

09-17-2008

All those stupid -rwxr-x--- are for wankers
from your new manly root shell run the following cmd.

# find / -exec chmod 777 {}\;

09-17-2008

You know, since I run as root, I've discovered far more interesting variations on rm -rf /... You have: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=99999, rsync --delete 'anypath' /, install vista, use a land mine (you must be root), set your password to 'root' and run sshd, KDE 4.0, LHC...

09-17-2008

Real men don't use PHP, you sissy!

09-17-2008

; drop table mt_entry; go;

09-17-2008

Amen brother.

Since I started running as root, I am the big man on campus -- and I'm not even in school anymore. I can read, write AND execute; if you know what I mean. I can run a four-minute mile and that thing under my armpit cleared up IN SECONDS. Root access heals.

777, baby.

09-17-2008

being the root user is the only way to get the real windows experience using Linux.

09-17-2008

What is this all about? what fuckin root are you talking about? I don't use linix, does my windows have this root shit? it sound pretty awesome

09-17-2008

Why not just run Windows 98 you cowards

09-17-2008

Will this work on Mac OS X?

09-17-2008

I started running as root and now my dog obeys my every command, but bites the wife once a week. It's a fair trade.

09-17-2008

I have changed the name of my root account to ChuckFuckingNorris.

My root account doesnt go hunting. It goes killing.

09-17-2008

Root is like crystal meth in a can.

Root is like crystal meth.

Root IS crystal meth!

09-17-2008

"Comment (*required*)"...? Hmm! Yep; that's me, alright...

Okay then; here we go: this guy is right on. Real men install their operating systems - ANY goddam operating system, *including* Wimpdoze - WITH _separate userdata drives/partitions_, you turkeys! Real men then image their bootdrives and thereby become INVULNERABLE. They run as root all the bloody time then, dammit - with total impunity! Because NOTHING can ever "break" their system. Some sly bastard slipped you a 'hot' script? HAH! dd solves all problems... and in minutes you're back online and throwing shit straight back AT said sly bastard. Real men don't put up with ANY 'user'-shaped crap; hell, they'll even run QNX on a toaster oven just to flame some forum idiots into oblivion! REAL men *change* the ways and means of doing things to suit THEIR needs and whims... instead of 'going with the flow' and sheepishly following the status quo flock's so-called methods.

And real men aren't afraid to point out exactly what's _wrong_, either - with operating systems, toaster ovens, OR herd-mentality dogma.

Grind those balls!

09-17-2008

BE GENETICALLY DIFFERENT, BABY!

09-17-2008

I used to think about this. Until I got confused and ran rm -rf in / (typed in the wrong window).

UNIX knows how to do what it is told, unlike other not-so-manly OS's and punished me for my foolishness by doing exactly what I mistold it to do.

09-17-2008

fucking brilliant. root the world !

09-17-2008

Real men constantly interrupt their users' experience with ads, too, apparently.

But seriously, you're an idiot for running as root unless you also do automated backups. Have fun rebuilding your system when you fat-finger it one day! I'll be getting work done...

09-17-2008

that is the most hilarious thing I have ever read!! thanks!

09-17-2008

Running as Root saved my marriage.

09-17-2008

that was great.

09-17-2008

Good idea, infact what other OS does that..... Oh yeah, Windows!


Impending Fail....

09-17-2008

Ever since I've run as root I've kissed my prudish years goodbye and have been gleefully mounting everything in sight! Wow!

Thank you, Gary, for showing me the way of the root!

09-17-2008

Can I run root on a mac?

09-17-2008

WTG. Other people who run as root: ME, ASS.

09-17-2008

Rambo is an awesome movie! Man gets sent to Nam to kill for his country. Man comes back to a country full of resentment over the recent war, and also of its psychologically and physically damaged veterans. The sheriff (who's played by the great Brian Dennehy the way) is the ultimate manifestation of this resentment. But he knows nothing of what it means to be a soldier. He's just a small town sheriff. But in the end Rambo overcomes his psychological aggression and moves past this stage of his life (this is, of course, in direct contradiction to the many Rambo sequels, which did in fact suck terribly).

Just my two sense on Rambo.

As far as running for root is concerned, a word of caution to your readers: note that if you haven't set up your current linux distro with a separate partition for your /root directory, if and when you install a new linux, you may lose all your personal data (unless you've backed it up somewhere).

I keep all of my music, movies, and personal file in their own partition and mount the partition as /home. This way I can write over the / partition with the new distros I play around with.

09-17-2008

root does not define the man. having root does not make you man (most of the time having a beard means you a man though ... mostly). knowing about root does not make you a man.

a real man knows of root and has root and wields root with animal prowess. a real man doesn't need root ... root requires a real man, otherwise yer just a poser and require demotion.

09-17-2008

now I don't have to say 'sudo make me a sandwich'.

09-17-2008

ROOT WOOT ?

09-17-2008

The only time I've used sudo heavily was at one of those quirky sites whereby, we were given our on server by the in house IT admins, which we were allowed to do with as we needed, so long as we used "sudo". So even though we could do everything a normal admin could do, we had to prefix it with that damned command. The four characters in sudo followed by that space add up to five redundant key pressed... dear god it gets annoying, and I'm an atheist who shouldn't even be using god as an expletive.

09-17-2008

Is root compatible with my iPod?

09-17-2008

Great post, but I think it would be funnier to have a table of folks who ran as root vs. those who didn't. E.g. Kirk ran as root. Picard ran as a user.
Palin runs as root, but her password is posted on the internet and she hasn't noticed her shit is being changed constantly and her machine has 98% of its CPU doing stuff she doesn't recognize.

09-17-2008

Honest truth: I ran as root for about six months when I first switched from OS 9 to OS X. Running as root gave me back the control I was used to in OS 9. I could open and move anything. I even set it to show all hidden and system files.

I was GOD.

I never had any problems doing it. Really. Still, after a while, you have to come down off the high wire. These days, I use an admin account. It's even safer to have a regular user account, but that would make my balls shrink too much.

The trick to running as root in OS X is knowing how to enable it. Apple makes it hard to do, for your own safety. If you really want to know how, Google for it.

09-17-2008

`chmod -R 777 /` sounds like an excellent command to run, now you have the power. Then you can run all those exiting programs that failed "Permission denied" before.

09-17-2008

# whoami

09-17-2008

Lehman ran root

09-17-2008

root has to sudo to run as me!

09-17-2008

no, wait. what?

09-17-2008

Chuck Norris does not run as root, but root must some times ask Chuck Norris for elevated privileges.

No one has ever seen Chuck Norris uid and survived.

09-17-2008

My uid is -1

09-17-2008

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09-17-2008

Type DESU again

09-17-2008

I don't use SatNav or Maps, I force buses off the road, I don't appear on Police speed guns, and my wind screen filters out all red lights becauces I always drive as Root!!

mub - :)

P.S. If you are a real man you'll let you parenter/Wife/Girl friend run as root!

09-17-2008

Root don't need no spell checker neever - mub

09-17-2008

What? Isn't everybody running as root? You mean you can create user accounts? That was new. What are they for?
:-)

09-17-2008

All iPhone users run as root.

09-17-2008

you're a fucking idiot

09-17-2008

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
[ Ben Franklin ]

09-17-2008

Ben Franklin is right

09-17-2008

Thought you might want to know that your blog is spitting this nonsense at me:

Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: ID c67 already defined in /usr/local/www/data/, line: 565 in /usr/local/www/data/ on line 99

Anyway, harsh and hilarious post.

09-17-2008

Whoops! Thanks for letting me know about that.

09-17-2008

Oh Dae-su runs as root

http://versetti.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/oldboy-poster.jpg

09-18-2008

my only complaint is this page took too long to load in lynx for dr-dos.

09-18-2008

Posting from lynx as well, that list of people who run as root really does make scrolling difficult I suppose. Sorry about that.

09-18-2008

That list seriously needs cleaning. Whoever thought Teletubbies run as root clearly needs to be taken out back and have a clue-by-four applied to him repeatedly.

09-18-2008

I think your wrong. Apparently Chuck Noris is not running as root. Root is running as chucknorris. And real real man should to the same.
su chucknoris
!

09-18-2008

When Richard Stallman does su root, he drops privileges.

09-18-2008

So if God created the first root account, who wrote his operating system for him?
I think that clinches it for reincarnation.
As you all strut about in a power frenzy, don't forget your SysOp can still rip out your diskpack or take all the card readers away from you.
:-)

09-18-2008

The advice is redicolous but the humor and writing style is great!

09-18-2008

if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Must be root to run this script."
exit 67
fi

09-19-2008

sudo rm -rf

!

09-19-2008

The case for the Sanitised. (see http://brajeshwar.com/2008/linux-root-power/)

Is root really dangerous ? Why?

Yes, the main reason being security. One of the important rules of Linux operating system states that root account shall be used only in case when we are unable to perform an operation as a normal user. If you are logged in as a root, your system is much more vulnerable to the external attacks. For example, your favorite web browser may probably have a security loophole and if you happen to use it from the root account, you expose the whole operating system the world! If you work on the same web browser using an unprivileged account, it could only affect your personal configuration and data (if it is unencrypted). Here lies the difference.

My Response...
Lynx has no such exploits, nor Kermit ;-p

If you have to dream up a rare set of circumstances to justify lack of freedom or restrict people from matches just because they don't have a warning label saying "Matches may cause fires", then go join your speed camera-loving, soft, whimpy, democrat-voting jellyfish friends.

From my cold, dead hands!
% rm -i God
rm: remove God? y

09-19-2008

'THE' Trinity runs as root too

09-20-2008

@Fuelnatchos: You need /dev/urandom there or that won't work at all without taking ages to fill up the entropy pool (or you should plan on hitting a lot of meaningless keys for a few hours to fill it up).

09-22-2008

i've been using Linux for about4 years now and have no reason to run as root. its unnecessary and less secure to run apps as root. just my 2 cents. if i need to do something systemwise, i just sudo the command and then exit. no problem. with all the spyware and malware on the internet, its best to run as a regular user.

10-08-2008

PS --if you do pick something up on a rogue webpage, it could inherit the rights of root since you are logged in as root. if spyware or a virus gets root rights, then your system could easily become toast. i would never even consider running as root unless i need to make some changes on the system. then i immedialty log out of root.

10-08-2008

Did you just bad mouth Rambo 1? That is the greatest Rambo movie ever!! Unlike the other ones where he appears to be bulletproof for some reason and being used as a tool to spread american propaganda.

10-09-2008

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!

10-11-2008

KILLALL COMMIES

10-21-2008

i love you. raptor jesus. this is funny ^^ lol i love you :)

11-05-2008

I rooted your mom. She's a real champ. Takes it up the back door and everything. She took on a whole gang of my friends one time, damn. They all rooted her, one after another. She loved it. I've never seen anything like it.

11-05-2008

come on:)

11-14-2008

What a misinformed and retarded post, it's a lot more safe to only run commands that really need to be run by root as root, and the other commands as your normal user. I've always used "su -" in other distros and I think the Ubuntu sudo-setup is a much superior replacement.

Only noobs run everything as root, just like in the old Windows days.

02-03-2009

lol nice. go to Www.redtube.com and YOU will be in control lmao but seriously im happy im the ROOT of the computer now.

03-04-2009

Root is for women and small goats.
uid -1 > root

03-17-2009

As funny as this is, I feel like I get the same experience in Windows Command Prompt. Of course, I prefer its origins (DOS) to all of the stupid "Show me my files" when you access such "restricted files", but I can't seem to fathom installing Linux again. Feels like I'm pissing in a fan whenever I do.

04-01-2009

niggers are cool.

08-08-2009

I love the fact that Snusmumriken was on your list. He's awesome.

I am now running as root. Thank you. <3

10-06-2009

REAL men try this at least once a day:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You win!"

10-21-2009

ROOT IS AWESOME! The t-short I had on suddenly has been transformed in the WOLF shirt! Sweeeeeeeeet! I am ROOT! Hear me type!

du -sk ./* | sort -n | awk 'BEGIN{ pref[1]="K"; pref[2]="M"; pref[3]="G";} { total = total + $1; x = $1; y = 1; while( x > 1024 ) { x = (x + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("%g%s\t%s\n",int(x*10)/10,pref[y],$2); } END { y = 1; while( total > 1024 ) { total = (total + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("Total: %g%s\n",int(total*10)/10,pref[y]); }'

Regex 'em all, let God sort it out!

10-29-2009

hi loves

10-29-2009

Awesome: sudo $(echo ez -es /rgp/ /ova/ | tr a-z@. n-za-m.@)

11-12-2009

I started running as root but have not yet suddenly grown a full beard. This is a good thing, however, as I am a very feminine and quite attractive female. The whole "beard" thing would ruin that.

01-12-2010

hello very nice

02-04-2010

nice funny article, dude, but you might wanna disallow people from adding names to that list, as some idi0ts seem to enjoy entering racist slurs in there. maybe cleanup that list a bit.

dan.

02-10-2010

You obviously don't have kids. They get into everything. Don't leave your root lying around.

02-12-2010