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Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig



on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:29:52PM -0400, Brian Nelson (nelson@bignachos.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote:

This:

> > > >To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the
> > > >original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how to run
> > > >netscape as root, and wouldn't have had to trouble the list at all.

<...>

> "Holier than thou" attitude?  I think it's the best possible advice
> you could have gotten.  There are some really good reasons why you
> can't run netscape as root by default.  At the risk of sounding
> "holier than thou," you really don't have a clue what you're doing if
> you feel the need to do normal user stuff as root.  Consider Karsten's
> advice before bitching about it.

...wasn't me.

Though I agree with the advice, I'd phrase it differently (and did)
myself.

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