[ale] Linux Distributions

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:30 -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:10:32PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > As root, you can 'rm -rf /". As common user, you can do such only if
> > > such is explicitly granted by /etc/sudoers. 
> > 
> > As a common user you can "rm -rf ~" without sudo, which is worse?
> 
> The first one will require you to reinstall and reconfigure the entire
> system, and restore user data from backup.  The second will only require
> you to restore user data from backup.

Both can be restored from backup (not that anybody ever does).
Restoring / is a minor pain compared to the horrible pain of restoring
$HOME, unless you backup your desktop system(s) hourly.

-Jim P.