Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:25:35 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <42515C6F.5040905@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <1729.1112622423@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes: > >>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: >> >>>BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently >>>in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a >>>warning at least? >> >>I actually agree with this. It's so frustrating to not be able to do >>what you want to do as root. > > > I tend to belive in sensible safety features. Forcing people who > do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism > first doesn't strike me as a bad idea. > > Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold > armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets. > It would likely be less frustrating if there was an obvious mesage printed to the console that told the root user how to remove the safety mechanism. Scotthome | help
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