[GRLUG] Distro's - was GRLUG test comment

[David Pembrook]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 5/4/06, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> 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
>   
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.

Dave
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