Marty Fried wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
2012/1/4 Marty Fried <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>
> I'm surprised to hear this - it seems to go against the
philosophy that
> someone with root permission should know what they are doing,
and is working
> without protection on purpose.
That's not exact:
Root account should NEVER been used in production environments. You
should use sudo instead.
I agree. That is why I believe that if someone is using root account
for something, it is probably for maintenance, or to fix a problem.
It may be that the person has root access for maintenance, but is not
in the sudo users file, and doesn't have time to set it up for a
one-time use.
Apart of that, a welder also should know what he are doing while
managing soldering iron. But leaving things disordered in its
workspace is always a bad idea. Even when you know exactly what you
are doing.
I think the welder is the normal user. It's more like root is a
repair person, who is repairing the welder's equipment. A welder
shouldn't take the equipment apart, normally, but a repair person may
need to, and knows what they are doing. You don't want to disable the
equipment in some way when he's working on it, as he may need it to be
functioning normally to fix it.
Nice philosophy, but: I suspect that due to the free nature of the
various linux distros, there are quite a few "root" users who only
barely know what they're doing. Having a complex editor like Vim doing
things (such as backups, changing permissions, changing ownership) isn't
a good idea imho. Such things should be done explicitly (ie.
chmod,chgrp, chown, or by menu); requiring all the barely to somewhat
competent root administrators to have mastered all the nuances of vim is
naive.
Admittedly, I didn't go over all 83 hits I got with helpgrep in detail.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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