Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:51:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001017085119.C2973@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001016152627.52938B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:30:16PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001016152627.52938B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:30:16PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's much harder to shoot yourself in the foot if you aren't waving a > loaded gun at it all the time. > > % cd rm -rf * .bak > > done as dms will annoy me and send me scurrying for the backup tapes > or disks. Done as root, I'll be much more than annoyed. I'll have > users after me! And a wasted evening while I rebuild the system. I > don't do anything as root, with the exception of user administration, > and installing or removing software. ...and reading the logs, I would add :-) A very informative post there, David. I have to admit that I laughed my stomach out when I remembered running something similar like root, namely: % rm -fr * ~ Certainly one of the funniest things you can run when your current working directory is / and you are logged in as root. This is probably why I customarily use find(1) now, with xargs, and after I carefully check the output of find, only then I append the required 'xargs rm' to remove files. Ah well, rusty old habbits of a silly user who's afraid of his own guns. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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