Re: eth0 or eth1
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:59:23 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> For security reasons, it's better to run commands as
> normal users rather than root.
I tend to be pretty cavalier about that stuff. Some people
go to seed on trying to issue absolutely every possible
command that doesn't require root access as a non-root user.
But to me, that's too much work to keep everything straight.
To me, redefining hardware interfaces is a system
administration task. If I'm doing system administration
work, I become root. And when I'm finished with system
administration work I go back to being an ordinary user
again. The two things that are likely to change my habits
are these:
(1) If I'm on a Linux system, but I do not have system
administration rights, I would, over time, find as many
ways as possible to issue commands that don't ordinarily
work for a non-root user, in order to satisfy my
curiosity with what's going on in the system, or in order
to get my work done.
(2) If I repeatedly get burned by viruses, worms,
etc., I would become paranoid enough to not do anything
as root that I didn't have to do as root.
But since neither is the case right now, I just follow the
simple formula above. Is this a system administration
task? If the answer is yes, I become root. If the
answer is no, I don't.
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