[ale] Permission hell question
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Wed Jun 30 20:54:06 EDT 2004
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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