Robin Bowes wrote: > This is veering wildly off-topic, but what's wrong with sudo? Works > perfectly well for me, and I don't even use Ubuntu!
Rather, ask what good it is? Why invent a new way to administer systems after 30 years of experience? running as root is dangerous. Its showing off and spinning a loaded six shooter. It has value, but needs to be approached with care. the sudo culture is 'don't worry, just "sudo rm -rf /" and be happy There are minor things that I dislike about it, such as uncertainty about which .profile is in context, but I could be old fashioned on this, I want to know what is happening when executing as root. The answer to my first question seems to be "because Windows users are too clueless" to which I reply: so stay with Windows. Real men use the shell, and argue over which shell is better. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
