On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> This is correct. `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :) > > Absolutely - but I can't find where it(7) actually says that?
It's more or less a rite of passage for FreeBSD admins, like "don't run `rm -fr /' if you are unsure of what it does". For a better reason see the post by Nikos Ntarmos and my reply to that :-) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
