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[Jerry Yu]

it is all about risk management and balance. If one weights the convenience 
of running as root higher than the inherent risk of destroying the whole 
systems (and, on a hobby system, don't care about down-time, bad publicity, 
and recovery), go at it.

sorta like, common wisdom has it that 'DUI is bad'. Then again, there's 
always someone insists that he/she can simply love the thrill of DUI. With 
enough luck, he/she still has breath left to brag about it.


On 5/17/05, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But do you think it sane to connect to a volatile P2P network as root
> with an untrusted application? Clearly the developers of the
> application think otherwise.
> 
> On 5/17/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:18 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > >
> > > I CAN run my motorcycle ....
> >
> > Yes, but are you running it as root? :-)
> >
> > I agree w/ CL, yes, you can can run a properly configured desktop as
> > root/Administrator without fear. No, you should not run server
> > processes as root.
> >
> > -Jim P.
> 
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
> 
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
> 
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