On Sunday 02 February 2003 02:24 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 01:07 AM 2/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >FemmeFatale wrote: > >>My b/f is a windows MCSE. Fine. In windows you run as root anyway. > >>Even on 2k I run as an Admin. > >>Now he says he sees no diff from that to running as Root in linux. > >>I can't give him any better argument for not doing so other than its > >>insecure (he doesn't care about that on a home compy) & that you can > >>reall botch Xwindow. Botching that doesn't faze him either cause he'll > >>just reinstall anyway. > >>Help?? Convince him? pls? Thx > > > >If he has that much of a Windows mentality, tell him that logging on as > >root can corrupt the registry, then watch the blood drain from his face > > ;-) > > > >More seriously, one reason why I barred myself from being root after more > >than two glasses of raki is that one typing mistake can kill your > >system. Like you think you're in /mnt/windows/My\ Documents\Downloads and > >you want to delete a bunch of junk directories with names like > >???sefdljvn5+5, ???fdsre8344 etc., so you type "rm -Rf ./?*" Just after > >you hit Enter you realise that (a) you were in /usr and (b) "?" is a > >regular expression. > > > >Maybe you could just ask him why he should bother to run as root? What > >does he need to do as root that he can't do by typing "su"? For that > >matter, these days 90% of system stuff doesn't even require that - you can > >just click on MCC and type in the root password. > > > >Still, if he wants to break his computer, that's his business. If it's > >your computer he's running, just change the root password and don't tell > >him what it is. > > > >Sir Robin > > Heh its his comp. I agree if he breaks it too bad. However I have hoped > to get some logical arguments just so he can understand that this habit > isn't a good one. Esp. if he admins other systems later in an > office. *shrugs* Thx, I'll pass this one Robin > > ------------- > FemmeFatale > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > character from Peanuts." > > - Source: Dilbert Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to remove a directory with configuration files to allow it to rebuild itself
The command was rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde since he was running as root and he got precisely this far: rm -rf / when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and planted a paw squarely on the "enter" key Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the system as all the files on the machine ALL went away. Seriously runing as root removes all virus and trojan protection linux has beyond the fact that there are no helpful automatics to load them into your machine. Civileme
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