Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 02:49:53 -0500 From: Troy Settle <pitlord@usit.net> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: James Chyn <jchyn@pluto.njcc.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: login (rm -rf, and goodbye) Message-ID: <32D4A321.5804@usit.net> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970109011947.10780A-100000@echonyc.com>
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Snob Art Genre wrote: > > Use the login name "root" with no password. Then use the adduser utility > to make a user account for yourself, and use that account instead of the > root one. The reason to do that is so that you won't, in a moment of > distraction, type something like "rm -rf *" and destroy your whole system. > (Don't scoff, it happens even to the smartest of us.) > > Ben Yep, sure does happen to all of us. Sometimes, it happens intentionally. Try it sometime, you might enjoy the experience (of doing it on purpose). I did a 'rm -rf /' on my 2.1.5 system when I wanted to swap out HDs, and install 2.1.6. It was quite interesting, as I was running X. When all was said and done, X, 3 rxvt's, ircii, netscape, ijppp, and a slew of other processes were still going. I was even able to continue browsing the web and chat on irc. The only thing left to do, was to power down, and start over. whee! what fun it was. :) (sorry for this useless post, but I'm bored :) cya! Troy -- .signature files suck a big one http://www.public.usit.net/pitlord
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