Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:51:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001017085119.C2973@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001016152627.52938B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:30:16PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001016152627.52938B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:30:16PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Kris Kirby wrote:
>
> It's much harder to shoot yourself in the foot if you aren't waving a
> loaded gun at it all the time.
>
> % cd rm -rf * .bak
>
> done as dms will annoy me and send me scurrying for the backup tapes
> or disks. Done as root, I'll be much more than annoyed. I'll have
> users after me! And a wasted evening while I rebuild the system. I
> don't do anything as root, with the exception of user administration,
> and installing or removing software.
...and reading the logs, I would add :-)
A very informative post there, David. I have to admit that I laughed
my stomach out when I remembered running something similar like root,
namely:
% rm -fr * ~
Certainly one of the funniest things you can run when your current
working directory is / and you are logged in as root. This is probably
why I customarily use find(1) now, with xargs, and after I carefully
check the output of find, only then I append the required 'xargs rm' to
remove files.
Ah well, rusty old habbits of a silly user who's afraid of his own guns.
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