Johnathan Bailes wrote:
But ..... It is honestly more of a fat finger risk.
Don't spend lots of time logged in as root doing things.
Just an invitation one way or another to disaster.
Anyone for example can forget a dash or something like the example below:
(Never do this as root) find / name core -exec rm {} \;
The guy who did this forgot the dash and deleted everything from / down.
Yep, about the same as typing in rm -rf * as root at \ (root directory).
Actually, this is a very bad way of removing core files. One should do the find and redirect it to a list file. Read through the file to insure that no needed files are there (someone once named a critical executable core) before running the rm command.
Also, one should never login as root unless absolutely necessary. I had to find a way around FC3's need to set pppd so that only root could run it and then to set the device settings for my tty connection so that my user could access it, while denying other users access. This made things fun. BTW, pppd is NOT world runnable.
James McKenzie
