Subject: Re: CDROM: Now U see it, now U don't...
From: Patrick Ladam (ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 15:32:47 MST
Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> 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.
OK, maybe I should precise I am working on SGI workstaions that I
administrate since almost 10 years and I started linux with LPPC R5...
I also ported a scientific soft under linuxPPC so I think I can
tell I know what the hell I'm doing.
Bye
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