On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote: > What are the real risk you talk about? There are no significant risks that I > can see. Risk is commonly defined as: >
What does irritate me about the 'no root' business the lack of a real 'override'. I would prefer not bothering with sudo at all. As for greater 'corporate' IT concerns... get a development machine off the corporate infrastructure in the first place. In more than 30 years of unix use, there is only one incident where I've shot myself in the foot... I fsck'ed a distribution '/usr' disk... on a system that was just plain too small for running unix in the first place, and I was swapping the 'whopping' 14MB disk packs... and put the wrong one in... But other than that... no 'cd /; rm -rf *'... type errors ever. I realize this flies in the face of many IT people's need for control... and there is probably good reason why I have always preferred small development groups in small companies because of the much reduced need for IT departments to 'get involved'... if there's an IT department at all. IT departments are probably the greatest reason why Windows exists at all... and of course the holes in Windows probably provides IT departments guaranteed work for the foreseeable future... John Clark. _______________________________________________ LTIB home page: http://ltib.org Ltib mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ltib
