From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 8 04:37:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18654 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muswell.demon.co.uk (muswell.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18577 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ruth@localhost) by muswell.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA04306; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:53:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:53:05 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199804081053.LAA04306@muswell.demon.co.uk> From: ruth moulton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Ovens Cc: "Michael P. Sale" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mtools use In-Reply-To: <352B28B2.5BDE9363@uk.radan.com> References: <01bd6296$aece1600$5006bccc@708644668> <352B28B2.5BDE9363@uk.radan.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark > Note! This will not work if you have a password set for root (which > would probably be the case in a commercial environment, but not > necessarily on a home machine). > > Now when you want to mount your floppy you simply have to type "pcfs", I do have a password set on root - not an easy one either - and I would recommend that people always have one set - especially 'newbies'!: 1. I connect to the internet off and on, to pick up mail and use the web etc etc, during that time my system is accessable to other hackers on the net 2. being root is potentially dangerous: - "rm * .foo - oops, I typed an extra space...", let alone the other things one can do - so I don't want to encourage myself to be root lightly ruth -- ================================================ Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Consultant 65 Tetherdown, London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message