Re: [ILUG] login as root

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Thu 08 Apr 1999 - 18:40:34 IST


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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