On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:23:50AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > 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. I once did rm -rf /etc /cups instead of rm -rf /etc/cups. man that was ugly. I now always double check and hesitate nervously before pressing enter... A
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