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- On Tue, 30 May 1995, Tim Cutts wrote:
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- > Of course, running as root all the time is not very advisable. I
- > almost never log onto my PC as root, ever since I did:
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- > rm -rf .*
- >
- > on root's home directory (/root). Bye bye system...!!! That was
- > about two years ago before I'd learned much about Unix! It would be
- > much more advisable to set the directory world writeable, or give each
- > user their own system folder.
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- I'm just too lazy to really give myself a cool account. I'm
- was used to DOS/Windoze, which gave me complete power anyway.
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- When I get my FreeBSD setup going on the other hard drive, I'll
- probably be more careful with that one.
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- Thanks for the advice!
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- - Chad
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