On Jul 20, 2007, at 11:19 AM, stuseven wrote:
well... since I dont have internet on my linux, I have always considered it safe to run as root... this is a first possible example of why that could be dangerous.
As lessons go, this is a fairly cheap one. My introduction to why I shouldn't be running as root happened when I accidentally did 'rm - rf /usr' on one of my first Linux systems.