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Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10 (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-why-dont-i-have-permission-to-open-my/6f33e814-3cc6-4ce6-993c-dffcf1bb5b75

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's not surprising you can remove it, but it seems contrary to teaching good habits to not install it by default as a basic utility. You don't want to train people to log in as root

Actually I think the only way I can log in as root is sudo -i

Pretty sure root has /bin/false as its shell and it's configured as no login my machines