Come back in a couple of years (if you are still using Linux) and tells us you
are still logging in as root only.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Fran Parker wrote:
>
> > Not everyone wants or needs to take the kind of chances you do.
> > Not everyone wants or needs to, as you suggest, reinstall due to
> > running as root and opening yourself up to invasion and loss.
> > Not everyone wants or needs to take the unnecessary time to do
> > that...su is not hard!
>
> I think you're being just a tad over-dramatic there... I have to run as root for very
> long periods of time (setting a server for DNS+HTTPD+dial in, and copying a Support
> Web system I made over, and setting up MySQL... about 4 hours logged in only as root
> getting this all set up) and never have any problems. The only serious issue I've
> had so far is when I installed my new motherboard, and that's because I deleted the
> parition /boot was mounted to (it needed to be redone to install lilo, since I wasn't
> using another hard-drive as primary any more). Other than that, I've never screwed
> up a system as root.
>
> > If everyone wanted this kind of abuse ... they could have stayed
> > with Windows and gotten all they wanted!
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Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas
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