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Re: Is this why you shouldn't log in as root?



On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 23:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 12:28, Don Werve wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:03:03PM -0400, alex wrote:
> [snip]
> > Only time you should *ever* log in as root (not with 'su' or 'sudo') is 
> > when doing system maintenance.
> 
> Like what?
> 
Like if your hard disc just crashed, and you've had to boot in single
user mode to clean things up (pray it never happens.).

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Jon Wood

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