Subject: Re: CDROM: Now U see it, now U don't...
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 23:00:01 MST
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Charlie Watts wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote:
>
>> I ALWAYS log on as root (what a feeling to be so powerfull...).
>
>Aaaah, the telling words of someone who has not yet done an "rm -rf foo *"
>when they meant "rm -rf foo*" yet.
Heh, or even worse, typing "rm -rf / tmp/*.*" when they meant "rm -rf
/tmp/*.*"... I get afraid just typing this in an email.
Patrick, the user 'root' should be used *very* sparingly. Do yourself a
favour and create a user account.
Cheers,
Chris
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