Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> > It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should
> > run as root as little as possible...  Besides, it is common sense.
> > When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very
> > clearly.  The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some
> > various HOWTOs.
> 
> gee, in my case it was fear :)  It took so long to do the initial
> installation on the first machine (the pre 1.1 kernel would hang on
> alternate boots on my hardware, among other things), i wasn't going to
> reisk *anything* . . .

I'll put something in the wrapper script that won't let netscape run
as root.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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