[ale] Permission hell question

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

I'll chime in with "Amen". (On my first DOS box, when it was unusual to 
have either a 10 Meg drive or an 8087 coprocessor, I managed to reverse 
the arguments to the "backup" command along with a media format switch. 
Yup - formatted the hd that I was attempting to back up, all 20 Megs of 
it. After reinstallation, THAT particular command went _immediately_ 
into a batch file...) 

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Vincent Fox wrote:

> 
> We learn fastest from our screwups.
> 
> I wiped out the home drive on a server I was n00b admin for
> within my first week of root access. Had to stay up all night
> recovering from tape, but I sure did learn about being careful
> from the root shell!
> 
> > Someone (Dow?) wrote that the safest way for beginners is to
> > su to root and mount/copy from there.  I would posit that
> > beginners should NOT be given the suggestion to act as root 
> > unnecessarily as a mistyped command can do enormous damage.
> 
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