On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Yea, I want to know where this list is of actual documented cases of > people screwing up their systems by using GUI tools in ways they > couldn't have with the command line (rm -rf / was a well known warning > before there even was a GUI :-). The common problem was people screwing up themselves. They'd log in as root, do everything as root, all their personal files were owned as root. The moment they tried to log in as themselves, they couldn't use their own files. And would use that to justify why they needed to log in as root. Instead of acknowledging that they'd stupidly painted themselves into the corner, in the first place. That and an incomprehension about system setting versus personal configuration settings. To use a Fedora computer, you don't need to be root. I haven't come across a single application that needs you to be root to USE it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
