On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:38:01PM -0000, ra wrote:
> Hi all,
>> As someone relatively new to UNIX and Linux, besides the fact the you might
> do some thing stupid as Root user and "Delete Everything", are there any
> other reasons not to use root login all the time (e.g. security...) ?
Because it's very easy to be tricked into running arbitrary commands/code,
and thus anybody can gain control of your system.
b.
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