On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:29 PM, PatrickD Garvey < > patrickdgarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I'm not referring to the username used by a particular person while using >> a CentOS community resource. I'm trying to understand if the document >> example should use an actual person's username (a security risk increase. >> That's half that person's credentials.) or a pattern that refers to no one, >> such as "username". >> > > Perhaps you are thinking of the examples found on a page like this one: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source > > Depending on whether a command is supposed to be run by root or by a > non-root user, the command line prompt changes between: > > [root@host]# > > and > > [user@host]$ > > Akemi > > Yes, that is about what I was expecting would be a standard use in examples. Not only does it protect particular user credentials, but it becomes something the reader uses as an indicator of what is happening in the background, permissions are being used as appropriate. I would make it more visually obvious with [username@host]$ because those patterns are all the same width and can quickly be scanned into referring to the same privileges. Of course, an example for a well protected system would probably be showing [username@host] $ sudo command whenever more powerful permissions are required.
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