On 07/07/2012 06:36 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 07 Jul 16:38 -0500, Adrian wrote: > >> I am very naughty here and run as root all the time now in fedora 17 >> (started on centOS 5 and fedora 10), so permissions are not an issue. >> >> Have been doing that for 6 years and yet to have an issue. > Until someone tells you to: > > cd / > rm -rf * > > Have a nice day! > While you might not type that in, there might be an ill behaving program (on purpose or a bug) that could do something like that. Or simply you open up a tar archive or something and that might overwrite important files etc. I would strongly advise against running everything as root.
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