-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Sep 13 14:44 04, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to PHIL MARLOWE:

 WC> Maurice is much more the expert than I however if you'd like
 WC> a novices perspective?

 MK> Very good job.  I think you covered all the main issues.  As for
 MK> the "root" login you pointed out the dangers although you might
 
Why thank you.

 MK> wish to add a bit as to why it can be dangerous wrt enviromental
 MK> configuration issues.  

One thing to not try to do is cp filename.txt /dev/hda1 

Back when playing around with an early Slackware I made no such 
mistake but I dunnit on Knoppix when overly tired. 

I knew even before I attempted to reboot that I'd made a big boo boo
and the dual boot and operating systems were history and of course that 
was right as it's exactly what I'd told the system to do :-(

 MK> Often people are tempted to take the easy
 MK> way out and grant root priviledges to users when it isn't really
 MK> needed.  That is usually when things go awry in a BIG way.

 Like when one recursively removes files .
 Never did that one except intentionally within the file
 of my choice.

 MK> Permissions are a real handy thing to know when running Linux or
 MK> any other UNIXie enviroment for that matter.

Yup and I've got the books covering that.
 
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