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Tim Schmidt wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 5/4/06, David Pembrook <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:david@pembrook.net"><david@pembrook.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I don't think anyone here that was complaining about the sudo setup on
ubuntu was advocating running the system as root for normal use. Don't
put me in that group (always running as root). Anyone that has the least
inkling of what one of the core problems with windows is, understand the
working as root problem.
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Yet you imply - heavily - that any user on an Ubuntu system can issue
commands such as rm -rf with disastrous consequences. Which is
patently untrue. They would need to use sudo to do so, which requires
just as much effort, foreknowledge, and configuration as using su to
do the same thing.
--tim
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actually, it wasn't me implying that... What I said was I like a
regular user and a distinct root user and that the regular user in
ubuntu is really root for all practical purposes. That is what I don't
like.<br>
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Dave
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