On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:29:58 -0000 Jamie Burchell <ja...@ib3.co.uk> wrote:
> Because you'll seldom find any good advice that advocates doing > anything as root. You misread it. Doing stuffs as root when it can be done by a regular user, or a sudo user _can_ be a risk (although I don't know any real admin that hasn't at least one or two consoles opened as root.) Everybody with a large practice of Linux has been goofing at least one time - I made a rm -r * as root on the root of the master disk (thanks BPC !), but you can also do tough shit as a user (such as rm -r ~ /dir watch the space between ~ and /dir, meaning you're removing your whole $HOME + /dir !) And in the particular scheme of BPC, where's the risk? root does launch rsync and recover files or parts of files into a controlled, so what? This isn't a _console_ risky line command order, this is part of a known automatic process ! In short: being root and (especially) removing directories is bad, on the other hand, using root as part of a controlled process doesn't mean that you'll be hacked or whatever - furthermore, doing some stuffs as root is compulsory for some maintenance work. Rule of thumb: don't get creative with a well known (and described) process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
