Re: xsane as root

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 16:20:33 PST

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    "John Anthony Kazos Jr." wrote:

    > Certainly. Because I am the only user of my system (besides my friends logging
    > in to share files or to talk), so there's really no reason to not be root.
    > Everyone who talks to me spouts the old chestnut that you can really screw up
    > your system if you're root, but no one ever tells me how. Sure, I could type
    > 'rm -rf /*' and my system would merrily go to hell, but really, if I'm stupid
    > enough to type that, why am I using Linux? It would be infuriating to have to
    > su every time I wanted to do anything interesting besides using a program.
    >
    > If you can show me one good case where being the superuser will prevent *any*
    > disaster (major or minor) not due to stupidity, I will cease the practice
    > immediately.
    >
    > Though I won't hold my breath.
    >

    And what happens if there is a new bug in xsane, eg when deleting a fax project
    and a directory is erased that should not?

    I think if you run everything as root you do not see the advantages of a unix system.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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