Wasn't trying to expose anything. Just trying to get a program 
installed that didn't want to install under the account i had created 
for myself. It just really pissed me off when it said root was 
restricted. Isn't that like giving the keys for a new car to a 
teenager and then telling him he can't drive it?

But as for re-compiling, if I knew how to do that I wouldn't have had 
any questions in the first place. I would just load the Red Hat 7 
disk I have and fix the errors on it. NT4 I can do blind folded. But 
with Linux I'm trying to get up the water fall in a canoe.

Rooster

>If you really want to expose yourself by running non-administration tools
>as root, then you can always just modify the source and recompile. Isn't
>that what Free Software is all about?  The ability to expose yourself to
>security risks? :)
>
>  >
>>  > well here's something else that i found after installing storm. i
>>  > attempted to install yahoo messenger and wasn't able to. it came up
>>  > with a message saying that it wasn't permitted due to security
>>  > restrictions. well excuse me, but since when is root restricted??? i
>>  > may not have used linux in a couple of years, but that was a new one
>  > > to me.