aubuti wrote: > I know I think twice before I do either. Of course, but you are probably smarter than the average bear.
> granularly limited extra privileges to some users, which sudo lets you > do, rather than giving out the root pw and praying. There are many ways to do that, as well. > Ubuntu *has* taken sudo to a new extreme, which isn't really necessary, Agree, but I'm not in charge of Ubuntu :-) I'm sure its a crutch for Windoze folks, but I don't like extremes. > And sometimes people just forget to logout of > the su shell. Yes, changing the prompt is only a reminder. > than running "su" followed by "rm -f /", is it? Actually, I considered whether or not to even write that in an email message, my fingers go into lock when they see that command. Sadly, I've seen folks do it on live systems. What the airplane guys call "cockpit error" -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
