On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, William Murphy wrote:
Not meaning to sound arrogant, but I believe that most
experienced linux users will be able to avoid doing anything too
stupid - in two years of using linux, I believe I have never
munged my system as a result of typing a dangerous command as
root. As for people knowing that you're running route, switching
off fingerd and identd should make that impossible.
William
one day you'll be tired, distracted or just unlucky. you'll do
something like rm -rf / tmp/someuserfile and bang.. restore from
backup..
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